The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Holmes, Janet A.

Blue Sky Yellow Kite

40 pp. | Peter Pauper | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4413-2482-5 $16.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jonathan Bentley. Enchanted by her neighbor William's kite, Daisy runs away with it and hides it at home. Eventually, she returns it, scratching an apology in the sand by his front gate--and then Daisy's new friend William helps her make her own kite. Holmes's simply but evocatively told story (first published in Australia) avoids sermonizing. A kite-flying wind seems to blow through the appropriately loose pencil and watercolor illustrations.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert