Overview / 简介: |
| Paddy Bouma's soft watercolors highlight this unusual Valentine's Day story of a loving grandmother-granddaughter relationship. Heather is disappointed that Mama can't stay home from work to spend the holiday with her. Making cookies with Grandma-including a big, heart-shaped one for Mama-cheers her up. But when Heather and Grandma check on the sheep, they find one of the new lambs cold and still. Young children will identify with Heather's pride in helping care for the lamb and her joyful anticipation of another surprise to share with Mama. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| When Heather says good-bye to her mom one Valentine's Day morning, she speaks for many children of working parents: "Why do you always have to go to work?... I don't want you to go." But in this quiet, James Herriot-style story, Heather's self-pity evaporates as she tends the sickly newborn lamb Grandma discovers later that morning in the barn. Grandma warms him with a hairdryer, and Heather wraps him up in her blanket and feeds him a bottle. He recovers and Heather names him Valentine. When Mama returns, Heather says proudly, "He needs me. ... His mother can't take care of him." Credibly and sensitively, Carrick (Two Very Little Sisters) portrays Heather's sadness, anger and happy realization that mothers are not the only ones who can love and care for their children (or lambs). Bouma's (One More Time) illustrations-soft washes of color bound by airy pencil marks-heighten the ingenuous tone of the story. Ages 5-8.
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Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| A perfect book to read around Valentines Day - touches on issue of working moms, farm life, and family love. Beautifully illustrated. |
About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Carol Carrick has written more than twenty-five well-received books for Clarion, including PATRICK'S DINOSAURS, one of the many books illustrated by her late husband, Donald Carrick. She lives in Edgartown, Massachusetts. |
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