Me and My Mom!

by Alison Ritchie, Alison Edgson (Illustrator)

Overview

Little Bear's mom is simply wonderful! She can string together the longest daisy chain, make the loudest echoes in a cave, and balance three apples on her nose. But the best thing she does in all the world is love her little cub!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589255753
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Pages:	22
Sales rank:	396,561
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	AD520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Alison Ritchie works as a freelance editor and writer and has published several children’s books. She lives in an Oxfordshire village with her two children and dog.

Editorial Reviews

Little Bear from Me and My Dad! is back, this time with its mother. The prose is simple-"My mom's not afraid/ of the dark or the night./ And I'm brave like her/ when she's holding me tight!"-and the illustrations are fuzzy-soft (mom and baby look more like stuffed animals than actual bears). They "glide" through bubbly blue-green water alongside graceful fish; afterward, "mom dries her fur," and Little Bear wiggles its bottom "just like her," their features obscured by the mist of the evaporating water. Predictably adorable. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)

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Publishers Weekly

PreS

A bear cub delights in spending a fun-filled day with his mother. While adults may cringe at the grammatically incorrect title and uneven meter, preschoolers with an affinity for schmaltz might like it. "We make strings of flowers/and Mom is so clever/That her daisy chain/seems to go on forever!" The unbridled admiration the cub displays toward his mom is also evident in Edgson's soft, bright acrylic paintings. Overall, however, the story pales next to Anthony Browne's succinct, sublime My Mom (Farrar, 2005) or the innocent, cartoonish glee of Karen Katz's Mommy Hugs (S & S, 2006). Devoted fans of Ritchie's Me and My Dad! (Good Bks., 2007) may want this companion. Otherwise, it is unessential to any but the largest picture-book collections.-Rebecca Dash, New York Public Library

School Library Journal

A rather slim but shaggy and perpetually smiling mother bear and her baby disport themselves through the seasons in this companion to 2007's Me and My Dad! A predictable doggerel ("We make strings of flowers / and Mom is so clever / That her daisy chain / seems to go on forever") keeps readers in an oral full nelson while Edgson's equally predictable soft-edged full-bleed illustrations show the teddy-bear-like sow and cub plaiting flowers, sliding on ice, playing in leaves, swimming and just loving each other. An easy sell in this season, but both mothers and their children deserve better than this calculatedly cute concoction. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews