School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-Titles in this series are designed to reflect the classroom experiences of young students. This installment describes Valentine's Day activities in Mrs. Jenkins's room. The children have learned the importance of including all their classmates so they work together to ensure that everyone, even their teacher, gets a special card. Interior illustrations by Nez approximate Wells's signature style. A pleasant story with appropriately challenging vocabulary that will make a suitable additional purchase for collections in need of easy-to-read offerings.-Shara Alpern, The Free Library of Philadelphia (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Yoko comes to school for career week announcing that she wants to be a teacher when she grows up; she brings valuable Japanese dolls (her "students") with her. The dolls disappear overnight but reappear the next day. This easy reader, illustrated in Wells's style, is less obviously moralistic than others in the series but more jarring because it has two distinct plots and no satisfying resolution to either. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
