Is Mommy?
with audio recording
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- £8.49
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- £8.49
Publisher Description
In this irreverent, hilarious, and charming picture book, award-winning poet Victoria Chang and celebrated artist Marla Frazee show that all toddlers love their mommies—no matter what.
Is Mommy tall or short?
Short!
Is Mommy fun or boring?
Boring!
In this joyous ode to hardworking mothers everywhere—who may not always be fun or organized or neat—Victoria Chang asks, do their toddlers love them anyway? Of course! Marla Frazee’s colorful and humorous illustrations bring this simple text—perfect for reading aloud—to vivid life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Poet Chang (The Boss) makes her children's debut with a dialogue between children and an unseen narrator, which Frazee (The Farmer and the Clown) draws with raucous exuberance. The cast is a crayon box of round-headed elfin preschoolers a red one in polka dots, a green one with many pigtails, and so on. "Is Mommy tall or short?" the narrator asks the polka-dot girl. A spread shows the alternatives, comically exaggerated: does her mommy tower over her, or is she a tiny doll? A page turn reveals her shouted reply: "Short!" A child in orange pajamas joins her. "Is Mommy pretty... or ugly?" (the child's groggy mother awakens with a wild, spiky bedhead and puffy slits for eyes). "Ugly!" yells orange pajamas. The children always choose the rudest option, but the group answers the final question ("Do you love your short, ugly, mean, boring, old, messy mommy?") with a resounding "Yes!" There are many mothers who feel beleaguered enough without signing up for a readaloud like this, but the children's anarchic glee rings very true. Up to age 5.
