School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-A little girl longs to be a flower girl ("All my friends have been flower girls"), and her dream finally comes true when her Aunt Penny is to be married. Brief text and glossy, full-color photographs taken at a real wedding at a golf club pay glorious tribute to all the requisite details of flower girl-dom: flowers in one's hair, beautiful bouquets, fancy shoes and dress, and a funny ring bearer named Henry (who rebuffs the flower girl's proffered good-luck kiss). The child enjoys her active role in the ceremony and clearly relishes the dancing and the cake at the elegant reception. The closing page portrays the dozing girl dreaming that "one day maybe I'll be a bride..And at my wedding, there will be a flower girl, too." From the vivid pink endpapers to the picture-perfect photographs, this paean to flower girls is a shorter and dreamier take on Jill Krementz's "A Very Young" series (Random) of photo-essays. The book is beautiful and well-intentioned but will doubtless find its most relevant audience as a gift book and be an additional purchase for a majority of libraries. Kevin Henkes's Lilly's Big Day (HarperCollins, 2006) is still hard to beat.-Kathleen Finn, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, VT (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.