PUBLISHED: 1997
GENRE: Children's Fiction
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: Magic begins when a frog hops through Lucy's bedroom window with a party invitation. What follows is a delightful summer idyll, complete with cricket music, a baby bird, and a birthday cake, and ending in the happy reunion with an old lost doll.
MY THOUGHTS: Lucy puts on the magic hat that the frog gave her and she's shrunk down to a size not much bigger than an insect. On the way to the party in a air taxi driven by Baby Bird, who's scared to try flying, she meets Madame and Mr. Mouse, Inchworm, a Japanese doll, and Owl, for whom the party's for. She didn't know it but the doll she found is the one her grandmother lost as a child. The book's title comes from a song her grandmother sings at the end.
There are a couple words in here no young child, and some adults, would have ever heard of, chapeau and fete, so I don't think they should have been used. Some of the pages are very, very dark colorwise which doesn't look quite right in a children's book, but I personally love it. Though there's no moral, it's a very cute and innocent story. The illustrations are so beautiful. Some have a 1970s feel, which I love. My favorite is below.
PUBLISHED: December 2006
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: On a cold winter afternoon Bess and her doll are having a tea party with melted snow and cookie crumbs, when -- falump! -- a little bird named Bella falls from the sky. Bella offers treats for a proper tea, and a new friendship begins. Little does Bess know that this is just the first of many delightful surprises to come during that afternoon.
MY THOUGHTS: This is a cute story about a lonely child who makes friends with a bird named Bella. Bess and her doll Rose are playing outside in the snow. Bella falls from the sky with her suitcase after attempting to fly south for the winter but it got to be too much for her so she made a crash landing on Bess' tea party. Bess invites a crew of firefighter dogs who were passing by to join them, then eats a meal with a mouse family, then Bess heads home. Bella stays with her and lives in her room until springtime. Another cute innocent story with beautiful illustrations by Irene Haas. My favorite image is below.
Sadly the author passed away in 2013 at the age of 83.
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