Yes Day!

by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)

Overview

Clever text is coupled with delightful illustrations sure to send kids on a journey into their wildest wishes--where no matter how silly the requests may be, there is one day a year when children receive positive answers. Full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061152597
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/05/2009
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	216,541
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	AD200L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Amy Krouse Rosenthal wrote more than thirty picture books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dear Girl, (cowritten with her daughter, Paris Rosenthal) and I Wish You More (cowritten with Tom Lichtenheld). A con­tributor to NPR, TED collaborator and speaker, filmmaker, and the author of two groundbreaking memoirs (Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal), she raised her three children with her husband, Jason, in Chicago. For more about Amy’s life, work, and the foundation formed in her memory, please see amykrouserosenthalfoundation.org.

Tom Lichtenheld makes books for children and people who used to be children. His New York Times bestsellers include I Wish You More and Duck! Rabbit!, created with Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, created with Sherri Duskey Rinker; and Stick and Stone, created with Beth Ferry. See all his books at tomlichtenheld.com.

Editorial Reviews

A boy celebrates his favorite day of the year-the titular one when his parents indulge his every desire-in this exuberant picture book from the creators of The OK Book. On Yes Day, the boy receives affirmative responses to his requests for eating pizza for breakfast, filling the cart with sugary cereal at the supermarket and staying up really late, among other things. Though the boy leads the charge, his parents, sister and even the dog eagerly join in, turning his "holiday" into amusement for the whole family (including a food fight in the yard and an invented game that involves pitching a bucket of Ping-Pong balls down the basement stairs). Via her fantasy to-do list that many kids will relate to, Rosenthal taps into children's glee at bucking rules and routines in favor of irreverent (but not too crazy) fun. Rather than plastering a "Yes!" on each page in answer to the boy's questions, Lichtenheld reveals the answer in large wordless pictures. His comic-style art, which features a shaggy-haired protagonist with a winning grin, matches the energetic vibe of the text. Ages 4-8. (May)

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Publishers Weekly

K-Gr 2

An unnamed boy cheerfully explains his favorite day of the year-Yes Day-as he makes his way through it. He tells readers to watch and see as his every request is granted-pizza for breakfast, hair gel, an ice-cream cone, a food fight, a dinner guest-all that and more. Lichtenheld's bright and funny cartoons bring the story to life, with character expressions that are right on the mark. Endpapers show a calendar filled with familiar and amusing ways to say "no" that are heard on a daily basis, with the exception, of course, on Yes Day. Children will find Rosenthal and Lichtenheld's third collaboration irresistible. Yes!-Catherine Callegari, Gay-Kimball Library, Troy, NH

School Library Journal

Calendar-like endpapers reveal the ways adults daily say "no" to children, with square after square proclaiming such observances as "When Pigs Fly Day." Rosenthal provides an antidote to these no's by instituting an annual "Yes Day," during which all of a child's requests are met with adult approval. The child experiencing Yes Day never requests anything truly outlandish or unsafe, making the concept workable, if still a bit daunting to adult readers; Rosenthal's dedication reveals that Yes Day is a tradition her father celebrates with his grandchildren (which perhaps seems more believable than the parents in the book). The book's satisfying pacing places questions on recto pages, with pictorial responses depicted at the turn of the page. "Can I clean my room tomorrow?", for example, is followed on the next page-opening by a picture of a messy child's bedroom ("Later, mess"). Lichtenheld's cartoon-style illustrations capture the boy's delight in each scenario and also provide narrative content when pictures, rather than words, fill in the details of a request's outcome. Funny and on-target. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews