Review by Booklist Review
PreS-Gr. 2. Here's a rhyme book that will appeal to kids' fascination with containers. The concept, abetted by Glasser's madcap illustrations, is that the world abounds in nontraditional pockets. The rhymes follow four families, at home and on day trips to the farm and the zoo, with part of the fun seeing how the families cross paths. Pockets are everywhere: caves are pockets for bears; a lake is a pocket for a duck; giggles are pockets for a laugh; arms are pockets for hugs; ears are pockets for a whisper. The story's comings-and-goings are nicely anchored by the children's getting dressed in the morning and being tucked in at night. Glasser's pastels enliven the action throughout: kids run, dance, and jump; soup spills; the wind tosses hats; and bubbles leak out of a bathtub. Fast-moving and fun. --Connie Fletcher Copyright 2004 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-In lively, rollicking rhyme, this book explores and stretches the concept of pockets as it follows four diverse families throughout a day as they interact with one another. In various settings (the zoo, a rural home, a city apartment), pockets become a lyrical metaphor to contain sounds, actions, objects, and behaviors. For example, "piggies love a pocket full of mud," "A phone is a pocket for a ring," "a bowl is a pocket full of soup," and "A pocket for a family is a home." Glasser's fresh, bright watercolor-and-pen illustrations are perfectly married to the text and tie the whole concept into a cohesive whole by extending the meaning of the words and enhancing the action. Surrounded by white space, the artist's drawings present inviting snapshots of a busy day. Astute readers will enjoy watching how the adults and youngsters intersect and interact with one another. A spur to imaginative thinking, this offering will encourage parents and children to examine their surrounding and create their own pockets that echo the themes of the poem.-Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha's Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Rhyming text redefines what a pocket is in a playfully expansive way as four families criss-cross paths through a busy day. At the zoo, at a farm, and at home, pockets become containers for things both concrete and metaphorical: a ""cave is a pocket for a bear,"" a ""heart is a pocket full of love."" Spry illustrations are a nice match for the catchy verse. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
In bubbly verse and playful imagery reminiscent of Mary Ann Hoberman's classic A House Is a House For Me (1978), Scanlon expands the idea of a "pocket" to include bowls, balloons, and bathtubs, hats, horseshoes, homes, and more: "A phone is a pocket / for a ring, / a bell is a pocket / for a ding. / A pocket for a duckling is a shell, / and a pocket for a farmer is a dell-- / hi ho." Glasser sends a diverse quartet of families with young children through a day of shared and individual encounters with all of these pockets, depicting figures and settings in various combinations with typically fine, sketchy, exuberant pen work. Tucked in with the closing thought that hearts are pockets full of love, the children at last snuggle into their beds--leaving young readers and listeners seeing their own worlds in a new way, and primed for Ruth Krauss's antediluvian, but still mind-expanding A Hole Is to Dig (1952). (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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