The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Singer, Marilyn

Boo Hoo Boo-Boo

24 pp. | HarperFestival | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-694-01566-0 $$9.95

(4) PS Harper Growing Tree series. Illustrated by Elivia Savadier. One at a time, three children fall and get boo-boos while playing. At the end, all three are bandaged and kissed--"And in just a day or two, / Take a look-- / They're good as new!" Toddlers may not like waiting through all three incidents before the boo-boos are patched up, but the simple rhyming text, the playful illustrations, and the subject are all well geared to the eighteen-month-and-up crowd the book is aimed at.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander