PRESCHOOL
Hutchins, Pat

There's Only One of Me!

(4) PS A little girl explains that she is something different to each member of her extended family (e.g., she is simultaneously her mother's daughter and her stepbrother's stepsister). Hutchins adds the newly mentioned family members to an increasingly crowded dining-room table where they celebrate the protagonist's birthday. The art, with its clean outlines, solid expanses of bright color, and shallow space, adds a celebratory feel to the otherwise bland text.

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