My Busy Day

This novelty picture book with pages that pull out and characters that move will delight babies and toddlers as it depicts typical events (having breakfast, going to the park, doing the shopping etc.) in the life of very young children. Dupasquier's minimal text and friendly illustrations are cleverly pitched for his audience with just the right amount of detail to keep the child engaged and talking about the things in the pictures. One of the toddlers who shared this book with me firmly believed that she was the child in the story - it troubled her not at all that the child in the story has different coloured hair and that the parents depicted are nothing like her parents! The only disadvantage to the book, but a major one nevertheless, is its fragility. The intended audience loved it, but loved it to bits; literally and far too quickly.