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One of the costumed guests at a birthday party is not enjoying himself at all, until he has a chance to help out the birthday girl.
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School Library Journal Review
PreS-- This is not a fantasy. Nor is it a romance between an unlikely pair. Instead, it is a lively story of a costumed birthday party. The birthday girl, dressed as a beautiful fairy, comments rudely to a ``. . . very small and rather shy spaceman'' that his present to her is a duplicate. Hurt, he slips out into the backyard. During a game of hide-and-seek, the girl falls while climbing the tree-house ladder, and she is rescued by the spaceman. His shyness forgotten, they rejoin the party in time to eat, exchanging secret smiles. The illustrations resemble a child's first figure drawings, simplified and flat, with dot eyes and nose and a crescent mouth that smiles from one round red cheek to the other. However, composition and busy motion are evidence that a knowledgeable artist is really in charge here. Clothing and background details are filled in with colored pencil. Pastel colors predominate, accented with red. In the text, some sentences mimic early storytelling. This happy story acknowledges that all children do not like parties and shows a typical changing relationship between two preschoolers. It is a worthwhile addition to any library's party shelf. --Nancy Seiner, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
A little girl dresses as a snow fairy for her costume birthday party, where a boy, dressed as a spaceman, is not having a good time. When the snow fairy tries to hide in the tree house during a game of hide-and-seek, she gets entangled, and the spaceman rescues her. Cluttered illustrations, weak characterization, and a one-event plot make the book dull. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Ages 3-6. Here's one that's slight but sweet. A little girl wakes up on her birthday delighted that she will be wearing a snow-fairy costume to her party. The fairy is bratty, as birthday children often are, and a young spaceman is shy, as guests sometimes are. During a game of hide-and-seek, the fairy goes outside to hide and, in a most improbable accident, gets hung up in a tree by her wings. The spaceman, who's been lonely by himself outside, helps her down--the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Anholt's delicate watercolor-and-pen pictures have a hint of Helen Oxenbury to them--like Oxenbury, she captures the details of life with young children, down to baby brother chewing on a piece of gift ribbon and a spaceman tearing up when the birthday girl tosses back his gift of a paintbrush with, "I've already got one of those." An appealing choice for larger collections. (Reviewed Dec. 15, 1991)0385304218Ilene Cooper