From School Library Journal
PreSchool-After a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, a young girl walks through the snow to the general store to buy whipping cream for the family's pumpkin pie. As she walks, she gives thanks to various animals and objects that she sees. "Thank you, pretty clouds.- Thank you, park.- Thank you, snow people." The colorful digital-oil-pastel pictures are cheerful and incorporate lots of humorous details. The very simple, repetitive text, reminiscent of Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon (HarperCollins, 1947), will appeal to toddlers. Like whipping cream, this selection is nice but not essential.
Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CTCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
PreS-K. Using Thanksgiving holiday traditions as a starting place, Milgram helps young children recognize the blessings in their daily lives. As a little girl tracks through the snow to get whipped cream for the family's pumpkin pie, she stops to express her appreciation to the things around her that have given her pleasure--the fluffy clouds, the rabbits in the park, and so on. The text, hardly more than "Thank you, park" or "Thank you pie with whipped cream," grows repetitious, but it works for the age group, and it is expertly supported by the extremely appealing artwork, which features precise, rounded shapes in flat yet vibrant colors, and exuberant and doll-like characters with dotted eyes and spindly legs. Touches of visual comedy (pink rabbits stare at a football on the multiple screens in the window at Marvin's TV) extend the book beyond its main idea and add generous warmth and energy to the plain words.
Stephanie ZvirinCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
