The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Gehl, Laura

One Big Pair of Underwear

36 pp. | Little Simon | July, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5344-2036-6 $7.99
New ed. (2014)

(4) PS Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. Two bears "who hate to share" fight over a pair of undies (leaving one bare). A pattern is established in the rhyming text: items are presented to animals, but there are always more animals than items, leaving one animal upset. The goofy situations are made even goofier through Lichtenheld's digitally colored illustrations, which are crowded on the smaller pages of this board book edition.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014