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School Library Journal - 05/01/2016 PreS—What's a girl to do? Her mum would love for her to stop sucking her thumb—but as the ginger-haired child attests, "I love my thumb, I truly do./It tastes of pears and carrot stew./It's like a hug, an 'I love you.'" As she leaps across a spread with balloons and her faithful pup at her side, the nameless preschooler acknowledges some difficulties that she experiences when glued to her thumb. Delicate illustrations washed with softly hued colors allow the girl and her red cardigan to easily stand out on each page. Young readers will empathize with the main character as she lists in poetic rhyme the pros and cons of sucking her thumb. A spread of a multicultural cast of characters at storytime subtly showcases bottles, dolls, binkies, blankets, and other soothing objects being employed as the class listens intently. The story ends with the girl in the bath before bed as she concludes, "I love my thumb. It's true, I do,/its soggy, wrinkled, half-baked hue,/its scent of O's and honeydew./If it were yours, you'd love it too." - Copyright 2016 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Bulletin for the Center... - 09/01/2016 Adults may not be big fans of thumbsucking, but young devotees remain persistent practitioners, and Hesse tosses young thumbsuckers a metacarpal bone with this rhymed encomium to thumbsucking. Our narrator addresses her thumb directly, acknowledging that it comes with limitations (“And sometimes you get kind of numb,/ and waterlogged, and aren’t much fun”) but that it’s ultimately a wonderful relationship (“But I’d be glum without you, thumb./ I’ll never find a better chum”). There’s no plot or serious weight to the story, and the verse shoehorns in some awkward phraseology in the service of rhyme (with a least one completely baffling line). However, there are some amusing turns of phrase (she loves the thumb’s “soggy, wrinkled, half-baked hue”), and it’s refreshing to see such a beloved childhood object get some credit from adults. Full-bleed spreads in watercolor, pencil, and digital touches are homey and humorous, with our carrot-topped narrator accompanied everywhere by her loyal white dog as reliably as her thumb. Kids still holding onto their own comfort items, be it a thumb or otherwise, will find validation here. DS - Copyright 2016 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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