Poppy's Pants
With a Postscript by Pat Conroy
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A colorful story about using creativity to find solutions to lifes everyday challenges
Penelope's Poppy always wears khaki pants. When he finds a hole in one pair, he asks Penelope to patch it. Penelope likes to sew, but she soon realizes that mending the hole is more complicated than she first thought. Penelope struggles with the challenges and frustrations, but, with a little help from her mama, she finally—and creatively—repairs Poppy's pants.
Poppy's Pants is about perseverance and problem-solving. Through Penelope's example youngsters discover the satisfaction of finding solutions on their own, even if the solution is not the way other people might solve it. Sometimes the best solutions come from being creative—using your head and your hands.
A postscript written by the author's father, Pat Conroy, best-selling author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, gives a personal, behind-the-scenes description of the book's characters and the author.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Conroy, a textile artist and the daughter of Pat Conroy he contributes an afterword makes her authorial debut with an extremely slight domestic comedy starring her line of WoOberry handmade dolls. Her heroine, an aspiring seamstress with the eccentrically capitalized name of pEnelope, is charged by her father, pOppy (who "spends many hours at his desk writing something"), to mend his pants; the story wanders here and there as pEnelope muses upon which color of thread to choose and how best to mend the hole. The dolls, photographed in whimsical hand-drawn and collaged environments, have a sweet, toys-come-to-life appeal, and their apple dumpling faces are surprisingly expressive. When pEnelope's frustration with sewing becomes a full-fledged rage, her sharply angled eyebrows, stitched frown and flying pigtails telegraph fury ("pEnelope throws the pants on the ground and jumps up and down on them. She feels better"). But the story, which seems to be about patience, persistence and thinking creatively, feels even woollier than the characters' fabrication. Ages 3 7.
