The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Warrick, Karen Clemens

If I Had a Tail

32 pp. | Rising | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-87358-781-2 $$15.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sherry Neidigh. Four or five lines of text give a few simple details about one of seven tails ("If I had a tail, a tail like a snuggly slipper, a beautiful, bushy black-and-white tail..."), while the facing page features a close-up illustration of the tail in question. The following double-page spread pictures the tail attached to the correct owner in a natural setting. Bright illustrations support this slight guessing-game concept well.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian