School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1-Harper presents a series of expressions of endearment, beginning with "You're a good egg. You're a little milk jug./You're a honeypot./Please give me a hug." This is followed by "You're my top banana./You're my sugar lump./I think you're a peach 'cause you're nice and plump." The book concludes with "You're my carrot curl./You're my cat-nip tea./You're my biscuit treat./You're my black-eyed pea./You're my juicy berry./You're my sunflower seed./You're my crunchy peanut./You're what I need. Oh, I could eat you all up!" Adults will have trouble explaining many of these expressions to young children. Chorao's beautiful double-page gouache and colored-pencil illustrations supply rich details of indoor and outdoor life and invite repeated study. They show bears having a picnic with a honeypot, an adult raccoon and baby with a bowl of raspberries, and loving adults and children of many races and species. Chorao fans will prefer The Baby's Lap Book (Dutton, 2004) for simple satisfaction.-Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.