The Horn Book Guide

YOUNGER FICTION

Jennings, Patrick

The Weeping Willow: An Ike and Mem Story

56 pp. | Holiday | November, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1671-2 $$15.95

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Anna Alter. This finely tuned chapter book about big brother Ike and younger sister Mem is more vignette than story, but its picture of how best friends fight over nothing (Buzzy and Ike are trying to rebuild their treehouse after the tornado documented in The Tornado Watches hits) is perceptive, and it's fun to watch Mem, who gets left out of the rehab effort, patiently get a bit of her own back. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003