The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Viorst, Judith

Earrings!

32 pp. | Atheneum | July, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-1281-1 $16.99
Reissue (1990)

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Nola Langner Malone. Viorst is only too aware of the objections parents will raise to a young girl's request for earrings: "beautiful, glorious earrings for pierced ears." The redheaded protagonist stomps resolutely with her own arguments through the pages of this debate-disguised-as-picture-book. Viorst homes in on the issue with humor and insight, and Malone's comic figures are miniature character studies in themselves.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1990