Customer Reviews

Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

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This is an excellent book to read aloud with your pre-school or kindergarden age child. I found it as entertaining as my three year old daughter did, and it triggered my own nostalgia for living and working in New York City. The book is about a little girl who goes to work for the day with her mother, a children's librarian, in what appears to be New York City. It contains many elements that children are curious about - what do their parents do all day at work? could they help with their parent's work? It also has a "story within a story" - the little girl helps her mother read "The Three Little Pigs" out loud. The book includes a diverse range of characters and the illustrations are amusing.

To be honest, this story is almost a little *too* sweet. The girl's conviction that HER MOM is the very best at everything - she's "the most important person in the city" and she "gets more mail than the president", and of course she's "so smart" and "so beautiful" - while this is probably heartfelt it is also a little over the top.

I'm being overly critical, I know. It's still a good book. Just... a little overly *sweet*.

This is a sweet book about a girl going to work with her librarian mother for the day. A real delight.

This story is told from tpoit of view of a little girl going to work with her mama one day. Her grandma has the flu, so she rides the subway for the very first time to the city where her mama has the best job of all, working at the library. She meeat lots of new friends and helps her mom out at story hour. This book is in our "book box where we keep our very favorites.