The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Lyon, George Ella

One Lucky Girl

32 pp. | DK Ink/Jackson | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2613-7 $$15.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Irene Trivas. In this well-crafted picture book, a tornado approaches, hits, and scatters Nick's family's less well-crafted trailer, with his baby sister inside. The grownups search frantically for Becky under the debris, but it's Nick who finally finds her miraculously unharmed. Lyon's telling--based, apparently, on a true story--has the spareness and vividness of poetry. The watercolors portray a family and neighborhood united by calamity and joy.

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