My Thumb
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
I love my thumb, I truly do,
it tastes of pears and carrot stew.
It's like a hug, an "I love you."
My mom hoped in a year or two
there'd be some things that I outgrew,
and some I have, but never you.
Kids who suck their thumbs know there's nothing better. NOTHING! Here is a fun picture book ode to the thumb by Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse, with art by Feiwel and Friends Creative Director Rich Deas.
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Hesse's redheaded narrator begins and ends this book as an unrepentant thumb sucker, but it's her very intransigence that makes this tribute to the First Digit so refreshing. Even if there are hints that she won't be a thumb sucker forever ("You make it hard to run,/ and beat a drum,/ and eat a plum"), this is a girl who knows what she wants. "There's nothing mum could say or do/ to break the bond between us two," Hesse (Spuds) writes. "It's like there is some kind of glue,/ that no one, nothing, can undo." Deas (Cock-a-Doodle Dance!) generally contributes literal interpretations of the rhymes, but he has some standout moments: in one, the narrator assumes the no-nonsense demeanor of a teacher and, with the help of a pointer and chalkboard, explains that she has already outgrown baby bottles, pacifiers, diapers, and nose-picking. For the most part, this is Hesse's language-fest, and she doesn't disappoint, ending the story with a string of rhymes that gamely employs kung fu, Peru, d j vu, snafu, and IQ. Ages 2 4.
