The Big Tidy-Up

by Norah Smaridge, Les Gray (Illustrator)

Overview

JENNIFER KNEW, AS well as you
That everything has its place,
But she just didn’t care a whit, a bit,
So her room was a real disgrace!
Jennifer’s mother has refused to touch Jennifer’s messy room until after Christmas Day. Free to let her room go, Jennifer turns a blind eye to the fustiness, the dustiness, and the spider’s webby empire up in the corner! Finally, one day, she can stand her own mess no longer, and gets to work— on the big tidy-up!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307983435
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	11/27/2013
Series:	A Golden Classic
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	26 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

NORAH SMARIDGE wrote several books for Golden Books in the 1960s.

LES GRAY has illustrated over 30 children’s books. As an illustrator for Highlights for Children Magazine, he created a mouse named Link that appears in each issue. The illustrator lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

Editorial Reviews

A little girl's messy bedroom forms the basis of this amusing tale, originally published as a Golden Book in 1970. This new edition uses a larger format that shows off the cluttered state of little Jennifer's room in grand style, with clothes on the floor, cherry pie under the pillow and her cat curled up in an open dresser drawer. The bouncy, rhyming text details Jennifer's messy habits, filling the story with humor. After Jen's mom posts a "Keep Out" sign on the door, Jennifer spends two or three days wallowing in her mess before deciding to clean up her act. Gray's illustrations of Jennifer's pink room are packed with the little girl's favorite toys and brightly patterned clothes, and the child herself, pictured with a bristly thatch of black hair, has a spunky charm. Though the story is an older one, that messy-room problem is still very much a current event. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews