The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Buck, Nola

Hey, Little Baby!

24 pp. | HarperFestival | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-694-01200-9 $$9.95

(3) PS Harper Growing Tree series. Illustrated by R. W. Alley. A preschooler tells her baby brother all the things she can do and announces that she'll teach him as he grows. The text is a rhyming list of achievements: "I can color a picture yellow and red. I can build a tower high as my head." The illustrations humorously depict the chaos--the aforementioned picture is drawn on the wall and the tower is precariously made from blocks, a pot, and a high-heeled shoe.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth