Review: Wonderful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
This is a great book for young children who can't seem to organize(clean up) their rooms.  Tommy is a young boy with a very cluttered room.  His mother tells him that he must clean it up.  Tommy claims that it was his friends that messed it up, which doesn't get him very far with his mother with is excuses, so off he goes to try and clean up his room.Once Tommy starts to clean, the story goes into 'over the rainbow' mode where he finds himself in the 'land of lost toys.'  Chasing Rocky, the monkey(reading a newspaper with the headline 'welcome to where your thoughts are) who holds the key to finding a way out, Tommy meets lost toys that have come to life.  And the monkey informs Tommy that it's his mess of a room that got him literally, into this mess.A trio of purple baby hippos, a set of lost tires help Tommy chase the monkey down.  While on his journey, Tommy starts to learn responsibility for his actions.  "We are not defined by our skills, but by what we do with them."(Kindle Locations 373-374)Excellent advice in a book illustrated with gorgeous pictures that seem to come alive on the page.  This is the second book I've read by Harpaz and it's just as good(The Murky Shadow).