The Birthday Queen
"Short Breezy Prose"If Christmas has Santa Claus and teeth have  the Tooth Fairy, why not a Birthday Queen for birthdays? . . . Audrey  Wood’s short, breezy prose and Don Wood’s candy-colored spreads, which  mingle slapstick with surrealism, hold sentimentality at bay; a  gift-wrapping scene is a riot of wrapping paper, tape, and birthday  magic, which comes courtesy of the queen’s three wands.