Pobble's Way
PreS-Gr 2–While out for a winter-evening walk, Pobble and her father play an inventive game. They decide that a floating leaf must be a butterfly raft and some fat mushrooms are surely frog umbrellas. Enticing duotone endpapers feature a line drawing mapping out their route. When Pobble drops her pink mitten and leaves it behind, all the forest creatures do a little inventing of their own. Squirrel believes the "Something" is cotton candy, Owl thinks it must be a wing warmer, and so on. The illustrations, rendered in layers of transparent watercolor glaze, are appropriately soft and gentle but don't bring out the magic and wonder of the text. Still, this clever story would be lovely for sharing one-on-one and could inspire readers to take their own imaginations for a walk.Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA© Copyright 2010.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.  No redistribution permitted.