The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Gomi, Taro

I Lost My Dad

32 pp. | Kane/Miller | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 1-929132-04-2 $$12.95

(1) K-3 A boy, his father, and a crowded department store provide the setting for a familiar theme: Lost! Each spread contains a die cut or flap on the right concealing part of a person who might be Dad, only to reveal a stranger when the flap is lifted. Gomi's solid, simply painted figures against white backgrounds work well with the turn-the-flap format, the seemingly offhand renderings belying a carefully planned book and sophisticated composition.

Reviewer: Lolly Robinson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2001