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What's That Room For?,Used
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Product Description Natalie tries to honor her mother's request to clean her room but finds it more fun to play with her clothes, toys, and her little brother, Thomas. From Publishers Weekly Mom opens the door to Natalie's room to behold an explosion of preschooler clutter. In exasperation she asks Natalie, "What do you think that room is for?" and urges her to pick it up. Natalie, with "help" from her baby brother Thomas, proceeds to demonstrate what the room (and various objects within) are truly for. For example, "clothes are for picking up . . . dressing up . . . wearing backwards and sideways and for turning yourself into a horrible dinosaur." James's first book displays a knowledge of life with youngsters that seems firsthand. Natalie and Thomas tumble and roll through the incredible jumble of crayons, toys and graham crackers with energy, inventiveness, moodiness and spurts of sibling rivalry. Mom rejoins them in the end and, instead of scolding them, demonstrates that "a door is for shutting so you don't have to look at the mess." Fullcolor illustrations spill from one page to the next, as lively and spirited as the text. Ages 36. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal PreSchoolKColor cartoonlike drawings picture a child's room that would drive most mothers to distraction. Toys, crayons, graham crackers, and clothes litter the floor while Natalie and her baby brother gleefully romp amongst the disorder. Their distraught mother exclaims, Look at this mess! What do you think that room is for? Now pick it up, please.'' Natalie, disgruntled by the request, lists the wonders of a rooma window to look out, a corner to sit in with Thomas, a floor to roll on. And clothes, besides hanging up, are for dressing up, wearing backwards, sideways, and so forth through the merits of other objects in the room. Finally, Natalie demonstrates the many uses of a door, Mother capitulates, and, with Natalie and Thomas, happily closes the door on the mess made worse through the attempt to clean it up. James' first picture book could perhaps be therapeutically satisfying to preschoolers and mothers who face this common household dilemma; however, the illustrations are not outstanding and the story is not memorable. Ruth Krauss' A Hole Is to Dig (Harper, 1952) is far more imaginative.Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libraries, Neb.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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