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When Dad tucks Daisy into bed, he says,
“If I were you . . . I’d go to sleep.”
But Daisy doesn’t want to go to sleep. In fact, if she could trade places with him, she’d read her dad a story, dress him in a pink tutu, feed him oatmeal . . . and that’s only the beginning.
Because just wait until you hear what Dad would do!
RICHARD HAMILTON is also the author of Let’s Take Over the Kindergarten. He works for the BBC and lives in North London with his wife and two daughters.
BABETTE COLE is the award-winning author/illustrator behind such children’s classics as Princess Smartypants and Doctor Dog. She lives in England. Visit her at www.babette-cole.com
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This review is from: If I Were You (Hardcover)
The front cover bills this book as "A Daddy-Daughter Story," but the fun certainly is not limited to just that audience. Many groups of people will certainly find the humor in a hairy-legged tutu clad man.One night at bedtime, Daisy's dad uses the expression "If I were you ..." and it quickly snowballs into a wildly imaginative conversation. Daisy dreams up what she would do as the adult in charge. Her plans include eating sundaes for dinner, visiting the zoo and (at the top of her list) dressing her dad in a pink tutu and parading him around the neighborhood. On the flip side, Daisy's dad imagines the fun he would have if their roles were reversed. Washing the dishes and making the beds would be replaced with watching television and bouncing on the beds. Sure there's the tutu, but zero responsibilities! Ah, to be a kid again. The illustrations of what the two envision for each other are pure Babette Cole, who is never less than totally delightful. We especially love the orange house cat, whose sole purpose is to prance about on stubby legs looking chubby. The clever drawings rolled up with rhyming text make for a rollicking good time. But best of all are the conversations this book will spark with young readers. What would they plan if they were in charge? And how would you behave as the child?
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very cute,
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This review is from: If I Were You (Hardcover)
The book is sweet and silly, and my 4-year-old daughter likes it. It's well written and easy to read aloud, plus the illustrations are scruffily cute. The daughter and dad imagine switching roles, with the little girl inevitably finally concluding that she'd rather be "me" than the parent. Importantly (for me), Dad appearing in a pink tutu is cast as something silly. I am still trying to figure out how/whether to explain why being dressed as a girl is so punishng for the boy cat in "Chester" (who oddly is a calico, which tend to female).
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