School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 2-In this pleasant tale, amicable woodland animals help their hardworking friend, Harvey Hare, the local postman. Harvey is inundated with holiday mail and is having difficulty carrying all the cards, letters, and packages that have accumulated. First, his friends weave him a basket, and then they build him a pull cart. When it breaks, they make a large sled, the perfect mode of transportation on the newly fallen snow. The culminating outdoor Christmas party is something to write home about. Watts's exquisitely rendered illustrations, done with fine lines, feature a wide variety of field and forest creatures, all determined to solve Harvey's postal problems. Children will delight in the gentle humor and visual details. The text, simple, straightforward, and full of good will, strikes just the right note for the season.-M.M.H (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.