The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Sierra, Judy

Preschool to the Rescue

32 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202035-7 $$15.00

(2) PS Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. After a pizza van gets stuck in a "sleepy, creepy, deeper-than-you'd-think" mud puddle (depicted as a nonthreatening Jabba the Hut-like creature), a succession of rescue vehicles meet the same fate. All seems lost until the sun comes out and an exuberant army of tiny animals goes to work to dislodge the vehicles--"Preschool to the rescue!" This story, with its predictable pattern and internal rhyme, has rainy-day read-aloud written all over it.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001