Alfred A. Knopf, 2010$17.99
32 pgs.
Rating: 2 (The endpapers might make the rating higher - I see LOTS of stories here...)
Endpapers: Boxes with different "ornaments" - decorated mailboxes to totems, whirligigs to weather vanes...
I felt this story had a very clever edge to it but just didn't follow through. There were some cute, funny parts, but all-in-all it was disappointing.
When Pearl's family moves away, they leave their lawn ornaments - a jocky, a pink flamingo, a gnome, and a deer - behind. Knowing they will end up in a trash truck if they don't try to find Pearl, they set out on an arduous journer to find her.
The illustrations remind me of many of the Golden Book illustrations I loved as a kid - simple, colorful, very two-dimensional.
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