The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Numeroff, Laura

What Mommies Do Best / What Daddies Do Best

38 pp. | Simon | April, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-689-80577-2 $$13.00

(3) PS Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. Published spring 1998. While these two back-to-back texts are the same, each features different pairs of Munsinger's familiar animals doing things differently: in Mommies, a mother mouse and child watch a sunset from a picnic spot, while in Daddies, a father fox and child view the sunset from a skyscraper observation deck. Art and text capably convey the message that although moms and dads aren't the same, they are each loads of fun to be with.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander