The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Holt, Sharon

Did My Mother Do That?

32 pp. | Candlewick | April, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4685-1 $15.99

(4) PS Illustrated by Brian Lovelock. Holly's father explains how various animal moms care for their newborns ("If you were a baby owl, your mother would have fed you mice") before describing how her own mother cared for her when she was a baby. The book is a sticky-sweet treatment of an otherwise enlightening concept. Lovelock gracefully contrasts watercolor, acrylic, ink, and colored-pencil illustrations of the human father and daughter with images of the animal pairs.

Reviewer: Nell Beram