Illustrator: Molly BangFor: Young kids
Published: 2008
Rating: 4.5
Read: Oct. 19, 2008
Endpapers: FRONT: Orange with messy chalk drawing of a frowning mom, BACK: Lavender with a purple drawing of a neat, smiling mom.
BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT
Textures are drawn to look like you should, and could, touch them. Mom's verigated sweater, Leo's colorful quilt and handknit socks add a subtle homey tone.
Imagine if all you heard all day was NO. Frustrating or what? Never mind that the NO's are for squishing tomatoes, dropping string beans into the fish bowl, squeezing toothpaste down the toilet, and drawing with crayon on your bedroom wall. Leo explodes! And after he tells his mom to go to her room for "one hundred whole days", the horrible "I hate you" flies out of his mouth in giant yellow/orange words on a very purple page - and he can't take them back.
After they have a good discussion about the difference between saying you hate broccolii and saying that you hate a PERSON, all is resolved with love.
No white! Great book.
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