The Horn Book Guide

YOUNGER FICTION

Borden, Louise

Good Luck, Mrs. K.!

32 pp. | McElderry | May, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-82147-6 $$15.00

(3) 1-3 Illustrated by Adam Gustavson. Ann loves her third-grade teacher, who makes every child feel special and who introduces subjects with great zest. When Mrs. K. has cancer surgery the students are sad, but they (and their teacher) survive the year to return in the fall. A text rich in detail brings the characters to life, and the illustrations use perspective to mirror emotion--in Mrs. K's absence, the children are seen only at a distance, without the coziness of the classroom.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth