The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Charrier, Lisa

Oh My, Oh No!

24 pp. | Running | September, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7624-5409-9 $15.95

(4) PS Translated by William Rodarmor. Illustrated by Agnès Domergue. "Mommy's mopping the floor. Everything sparkles. I mop, too, just like Mommy." But Mommy gets mad--"There's water everywhere!" This is just one example of Mommy's capacity to misunderstand her well-intentioned young daughter ("Can't she see?"). While the child's voice is inauthentic, her vulnerability is better conveyed in the illustrations, in which she's a doll-size child in a Mommy-scaled world.

Reviewer: Nell Beram