Happy Birthday, Harvey Hare

In this delightful sequel to ""Harvey Hare, Postman Extraordinaire"", Harvey Hare is delivering invitations to his birthday party along with the daily mail. His friends are all pleased and wish him a happy day, but everyone is ""so"" busy--will they have time for Harvey's party? Full color. Read more Continue reading Read less FROM SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
PreS-Gr 2--Harvey Hare, the postman, remembers that tomorrow is his birthday and decides to deliver party invitations to all of his friends. Of course, they're all busy baking and gathering seeds and nuts, and Harvey worries that no one will come to his celebration. Naturally, he arrives home and finds all of the animals in his garden with a cake and a feast. This story has a predictable plot, a lifeless text, and static illustrations. Even very young children will guess what's going to happen, and there's no fun along the way. The scratchy illustrations don't add any sense of warmth or friendship, and the text is so matter-of-fact that it doesn't involve readers in the set-up.

Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernadette Watts has loved to draw since her childhood in England. She created her first picture book under the influence of Beatrix Potter. Watts studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent and is the illustrator of North South fairy tales The Snow Queen and The Ugly Duckling. Read more Continue reading Read less