This gentle ode to a teacher’s skill at inspiring, encouraging, and being a role model is spoken, presumably, from a child’s viewpoint. The beautifully simple pictures are a sweet, kid- and parent-appealing blend of comic-strip style and fine art the cast of children depicted is commendably multiethnic.Īlthough the love comes shining through, the text often confuses in straining for patterned simplicity.Ī paean to teachers and their surrogates everywhere. Some of the wordplay, such as “more can than knot” and “more pause than fast-forward,” will tickle older readers with their accompanying, comical illustrations. The line reads: “I wish you more treasures than pockets.” Most children will feel the better wish would be that he had just the right amount of pockets for his treasures. Then there's a picture of a boy on a beach, his pockets bulging with driftwood and colorful shells, looking frustrated that his pockets won't hold the rest of his beachcombing treasures, which lie tantalizingly before him on the sand.
His feet are visible, but it's not clear whether he's floating in the deep end or standing in the shallow. The line “I wish you more tippy-toes than deep” accompanies a picture of a boy happily swimming in a pool.
It starts out simply enough: two children run pell-mell across an open field, one holding a high-flying kite with the line “I wish you more ups than downs.” But on subsequent pages, some of the analogous concepts are confusing or ambiguous. The writing is smooth and the characters appealing.Ī collection of parental wishes for a child. of plot, but middle readers will latch on to this lighthearted book. Meanwhile, Janet's mother passes through a crisis of her own, as phone calls to an answering-machine Adonis encourage her back into circulation after a post-divorce slump. And when Rolf becomes the star of the evening with his drum performance, Janet basks happily in reflected glory. At the last minute she is saved from embarrassment when Rolf, the new boy in town, accepts her invitation. Nothing could be more humiliating than to go to the dance dateless and land in the "dog pen." Janet invents an "older man" to accompany her, and tries unsuccessfully to get her brother's best friend to fill the role. Seventh-grader Janet panics when she discovers that her two best friends have dates to her school's year-end dance.
This companion volume to Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser takes another breezy look at preteen life.
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