The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Baicker, Karen

I Can Do It Too!

24 pp. | Handprint | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 1-929766-83-1 $$13.95

(3) PS Illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max. A series of rhymes about various family members' abilities are paired with a young African-American girl's triumphant cry of "I can do it too!" and corresponding images of her proudly pouring juice (although she spills some), etc. This is preschooler manna: Wilson-Max's mural-like illustrations, exhibiting brush strokes reminiscent of a child's first tempera-paint attempts, perfectly capture the girl's justifiably outsize delight.

Reviewer: Nell Beram