"When my brother
gets home ...
we're going to have
our own comic book
convention.
Then we'll climb
Mount Kilimanjaro."
Oh, to be the little girl in this book whose imagination runs rampant and whose joy overflows with the return of her big brother from school! As readers watch her and her canine companion look longingly down the street in anticipation of seeing the school bus turn the corner, she thinks seriously about what might happen when her brother gets off that bus.
She is full of ideas. While she waits the page that faces her shows a child-like drawing of the trip her brother is taking to get back to her. From climbing aboard the bus, to the mapped-out trip from point A to point B, observers can watch the little one as she waits in high anticipation and the progress of her brother's bus on the journey back home.
Each new adventure she anticipates upon his return plays out in pencil, watercolor and colored pencil artwork that is filled with joy and adventure. Young readers will delight in watching the two spend such imagined special times together. And as all wonderful big brothers are sure to do; the minute he gets off the bus, his attention turns to his sister with a question: 'what do you want to do?' She has some surprises in store for him.
The repetitious phrasing, the signature Lichtenheld images, and the comfort she imagines in being together in the outdoors following a long day apart is delightful. Such a lovely premise for a story about siblings!
She is full of ideas. While she waits the page that faces her shows a child-like drawing of the trip her brother is taking to get back to her. From climbing aboard the bus, to the mapped-out trip from point A to point B, observers can watch the little one as she waits in high anticipation and the progress of her brother's bus on the journey back home.
Each new adventure she anticipates upon his return plays out in pencil, watercolor and colored pencil artwork that is filled with joy and adventure. Young readers will delight in watching the two spend such imagined special times together. And as all wonderful big brothers are sure to do; the minute he gets off the bus, his attention turns to his sister with a question: 'what do you want to do?' She has some surprises in store for him.
The repetitious phrasing, the signature Lichtenheld images, and the comfort she imagines in being together in the outdoors following a long day apart is delightful. Such a lovely premise for a story about siblings!
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