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One Monday Morning

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I think the artwork in this book has been underrated, perhaps because only a few colors were used in printing. It's clever: the run-down New York City neighborhood is drawn in meticulous detail. I use it to show Inuit students what a city looks like! By contrast, the royal entourage is cartoon-style, not realistic. Not only does the royal family's entourage grow larger with each repetition of the pattern, but the characters themselves grow larger, until at the end of the book they have to hunch over to fit into the boy's tenement apartment. At the very end, the characters turn into playing cards (only in the art, not in the text) and the royal barber (who, we somehow suspect, is a self-portrait of the author) becomes a doll that has been sitting half-seen on the window sill all along. Lots to look at in this book.

This book is a great first time reader. It is better than Dick and Jane for several reasons. This book adds people and words as the story unfolds. It is an easy story to follow. It adds words that are pretty common to today's early readers. I am a literacy volunteer and I use this book for my older reading students.

One Monday Morning is the story of a little prince who each day of the week brings more friends to visit. However the little boy he's coming to visit isn't home. The story is much like the 12 days of christmas with the addition of interesting characters each day of the week.

I bought 3 of these books for my kids, now 26,23 and 17. My oldest has a daughter of his own and wanted to pass it on, but the other 2 were so excited when I sent them one too! We spent many hours reading this until it was completely torn. We memorized it and create a game that helped in times of boredom. We would do a round robin of the characters and then create exciting places describing where the little boy in the story had gone to. It was a great way to learn the days of the week and also be creative.One Monday Morning

A little boy sits by a window in a dreary run-down neighborhood (most likely Alphabet City in NY) and dreams of colorful characters visiting his apartment. The neighborhood looks perpetually overcast and gray, as does everything inside and out. But the boy's imaginary characters are splendidly dressed in reds, blues, and yellows, and they march in every day looking for him.

"One Monday Morning" is an old book and hard to find. But it's ironic today, because it's all about a kid's imagination. Today, with babies watching TV in their rooms, and first graders being forced to read chapter books, we don't give kids enough time to "create." This book was from a time before all that, when kids were left to create things from their imagination, not a computer screen.

Maybe if kids were under less pressure in childhood, they would have more time to read books like these.

I read this book as a youth and got it for my child.
It is just as cute and enjoyable as I remembered it being.
It has a nice repetitive nature that helps kids learn the days of the week.
Great illustrations.