Coco All Year Round
PreSchool-Grade 2–Four-line rhymes touch on one event or activity for each month of the year. Some of the selections are obvious–New Years Day, Valentines Day, St. Patricks Day. Other holidays, like the Fourth of July, are not included. Julys verse is about Magic Camp. Decembers verse is not holiday specific, but the picture has both a Christmas tree and a menorah in the window. The photo illustrations of pompon chicks posed in miniature sets provide more interest than the text. Young readers will enjoy finding small objects and details, but they will likely miss the picture story and the humor. The verses are not particularly clever. On Saint Patricks we march in the yearly parade./Theres music and dancing and green lemonade./I walk down the street with my whole Girl Scout troop./It would have been fun, had I not slipped in poop. The brief rhymes and appealing illustrations seem to indicate a good choice for preschoolers. Unfortunately, the book does not live up to these expectations.–Carolyn Janssen, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, OHCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.