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Puddle, puddle, puddle, MUD! Our favorite bald baby celebrates a new season with an adorable friend.
Squish! Squoosh! Squash! It's raining, but that's OK, because rain means that spring is here! Baby and a best buddy love to be outside, enjoying the tulips and daffodils, the leaves on the trees, the butterflies and bumblebees. Look, there's a bunny hopping! And a froggy plopping! Best of all is playing together in the slippery mud . . . oops! Good thing the rain is coming down to clean everyone off! Little fans and big ones alike will skip along with Baby in this salute to the season of everything new.
PreS-Gr 1--"Clovers! Dandelions! Leaves on trees!" are just a few of the delights found in the first days of spring--along with mud and puddles to splash in. Four adults--two with brown skin, two with light skin--accompany two joyful, ungendered diaper-wearing toddlers into a hopeful, what-will-happen-next outing. The pinkish child wears a red slicker and red spotted rainboots, while the Black child has green froggy boots with a yellow slicker. They hang from a low branch, roll down a hill, check out the butterflies, and plop in the mud. A rainstorm cleans them off, and the adults happily brought food. Patricelli's young characters have unvarying expressions of glee on their faces, except during that fall in the mud. This is not a drawback; the toddlers utterly encompass the anticipation of spring and it will translate for readers, too. VERDICT A nearly perfect board book in tone and content. Bring it on, story hour.
Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Leslie Patricelli is the creator of a series of best-selling board books starring her beloved baby character. She is also the author-illustrator of Higher! Higher! and Faster! Faster! as well as two stories about the Patterson Puppies and, more recently, Be Quiet, Mike! She lives in Ketchum, Idaho.
