You Go Away

by Dorothy Corey, Lisa Fox (Illustrator)

Overview

It's hard for young children to be apart from ones they love. First published in 1976, Dorothy Corey's classic picture book You Go Away has helped reassure generations of children with its simple story pattern: You go away... and you come back. I go away—and I come back. Now You Go Away has been adapted as a board book, a sturdy format with brand new art. Lisa Fox's gentle illustrations show a diverse cast of parents and children as they experience a variety of brief separations and happy reunions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807594407
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Dorothy Corey's books include You Go Away and Will It Ever Be My Birthday? She lived in California until her death in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

Corey's workhorse of a text has been addressing separation anxiety for almost 35 years, first illustrated by Lois Axeman in 1976 and then by Diane Paterson in 1999. Now it has been re-illustrated again and packaged in board-book format. In Fox's bright, cheery illustrations, a bevy of children of varying ethnicities watch their adults go away and come back while experimenting a little bit on their own. While it is certain that very young babies can begin to grasp object permanence, whether this book is the best way to reinforce it is another question. Will even young toddlers be able to decode the actions and emotions depicted in static images, however effectively illustrated? It's still an important book, but best used with older toddlers, not babies, as the format seems to imply. (Board book. 2-3)

Kirkus Reviews