The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Haas, Jesse

Hurry!

24 pp. | Greenwillow | May, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-688-16889-2 $$15.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jos. A. Smith. Quiet drama and a childlike view characterize this fourth book about Nora and her farmer grandparents, which finds them in a race to get the hay in before the rain falls. Smith's pictures work beautifully with the simple but evocative text, increasing the tension with a sky that gets progressively blacker and more threatening until the final illustration of the hard workers inside the safety of the barn, watching the now-benign rain come down.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2000