Off-Limits
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For every child who has ever felt that grown-ups have all the fun, here is a vicarious chance to slip behind the office door—and play with all the tempting things that are off-limits. Dad’s office is off-limits—which only makes it more intriguing to his curious young daughter. As soon as she sees an opening, she sneaks in to have a look around. After all, there’s no harm in just looking, right? What she discovers is a magical wonderland of sticky tape, paper clips that make glorious strands, and a kaleidoscopic array of sticky notes. Who could possibly resist playing with those? In a joyful ode to office supplies, Helen Yoon leads a celebration of just-for-once breaking the rules—and offers a final, funny nod to adults who harbor a similar urge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yoon reveals the fun behind closed doors in this comedic, well-designed picture book. A pale, blond-bearded parent tapes an "OFF-LIMITS" sign onto a home office door, then trudges off with a coffee mug and a brown dog. Almost immediately, a curious, dark-haired child disregards it: "Hello! I'm just looking," the child addresses readers, walking light tan fingers along the desk as cinematic angles display the spread of office supplies. Soon, "just looking" turns into a riotous adventure, as the child sweeps tape around ("Why, hello, Mr. Lamp! What a lovely scarf!"), swings circular swirls of "PAPER CLIPS AND BINDER CLIPS," and creates a kaleidoscopic pattern of sticky notes and legal pad cut-paper chains. A combination of stark angles and rounded cartoonish positions energize mixed-media illustrations in this exemplar of childlike curiosity that, with a tender end-of-book reversal, also reinforces the importance of parent-child play. Ages 3–7.
