Will You Take Care of Me? - Softcover

Margaret Park Bridges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439087325 ISBN 13: 9780439087322

Publisher: Scholastic, 1999

Synopsis

Will You Take Care of Me is a warm, imaginat ive story that gently reminds young ones of a parent''s unwav ering devotion. No matter how her child grows or changes, Ma ma will always be there. '

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Park Bridges is the author of the children's book, Will You Take Care of Me?

Melissa Sweet has illustrated many award-winning books for children, including A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, a 2009 Caldecott Honor Book, an NCTE Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. She has also written and illustrated Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade, Tupelo Rides the Rails, and Carmine: A Little More Red, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 2005. Her collages and paintings have appeared in the New York Times and Martha Stewart Living.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the tradition of Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny (and the myriad other titles in a crowded category) comes this sweet if derivative picture book debut about a mother's enduring love. This time out it's a mother kangaroo who reassures her joey that she will love him (or her?the gender is indeterminate) and take care of him no matter how old he gets or how he changes. "What if I turned into a field of flowers?" he asks while passing such a field on the way home. "I'd breathe in the wonderful smell of you," she answers. The game continues as the pair progresses through the child's bedtime routine: "What if I became a bar of soap?/ I'd hold you tight so you wouldn't slip away." The phrasing has a gentle read-aloud rhythm and the sentiment expressed is timeless and universal, but both adults and children will feel they've heard this comforting text before. Sweet's (Fiddle-I-Fee: A Farmyard Song) cozy multimedia and watercolor illustrations, awash in springy greens, yellows and blues, energize this outing. Some of the compositions are very childlike, others appear to incorporate thread embroidered on paper, still others use collage. What the text lacks in originality can be found in the art. Ages 2-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0439087325
• ISBN 13: 9780439087322
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Melissa Sweet