One Very, Very Quiet Afternoon - Hardcover

Patricia Lillie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688043232 ISBN 13: 9780688043230

Publisher: Greenwillow, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Lillie, Patricia

About this title

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1 Lillie's use of unusual names to reinforce learning the alphabet lends this ABC book a bubbling, rhythmic quality. With this in mind, the end product should be a pleasing and entertaining romp. What emerges instead is an insipidly illustrated picture book that is plagued with sexual stereotypes and offers little new or insightful to a market already flooded with this genre. It is a rather dull afternoon, and a group of Victorian era garbed children of mixed ethnic background become involved in a classic and all too overused example of the battle of the sexes. Feminine and proper young ladies like Annabelle Barbara Cavendish like to have tea parties. Rough and tumble little boys like Daniel Ezra Fiddleson have "other plans"namely the wrecking of said tea party. Little girls like to make mud pies, while little boys help throw them. More and more boys and girls become involved in the fray. Finally, the quiet afternoon becomes a noisy evening and all of the children say good night. Uninspired and cluttered gray and orange illustrations contribute to this book's overall mediocrity. Although One Very, Very Quiet Afternoon may be rather quaint, it is not very, very much fun. Xenda Casavant, Worcester Public Library, Mass.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0688043232
• ISBN 13: 9780688043230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24