The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Krauss, Ruth Noonan, Julia, Illustrator

You're Just What I Need

32 pp. | HarperCollins | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-06-027514-6
1951

(4) K-3 Originally published as 'The Bundle Book', Krauss's text has been re-illustrated and retitled. The text is reassuring and cozy--a small child hides under a blanket and the mother repeatedly guesses what the bundle might contain. The illustrations are soft and romantic, printed on nursery-yellow paper with a pastel palette and a blue-eyed "Gerber baby." The text is charming and realistic, but the artwork is sentimental.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.