Wednesday, January 17, 2024

*Review* Pitter Patty Finds Another Day by Andrew Hiller

 

Genre: Children's 3-6 years
Published: May 16, 2023
Pages: 42


Children's picture book; read aloud for 3 to 6 year olds.

Pitter Patty is a sad little cloud looking for a friend, but people are not friendly to rain clouds

and keep singing to her to "come back another day." Can this little cloud find a friend? Can she

make it to another day?

Uses open dyslexic font.

The bright pictures follow a young cloud find a place of acceptance.


I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

This is a story about Pitter Patty, a raincloud. She spends her days hearing children and adults alike wishing she'd go away and come again another day. I know I used to sing that nursery rhyme sometimes even when it wasn't raining myself. This makes her very sad, because she really just wants people to like her, but when you live somewhere that gets rain regularly, and it interrupts your plans, you just wish it would stop sometimes. So Patty travels until she finds a place where the people don't ask her to go away, but instead come out to play in her rain. 

This story honestly made me feel a bit sad while I was reading it, so it would be great to read with kids to teach them some empathy if nothing else. The book makes it really easy to put yourself into Pitter Patty's figurative shoes and see how it would feel if everyone always wanted you to go away. I felt like the story would also be good for teaching children  to worry more about going where they're wanted, because that feels so much better than being somewhere they're not really wanted. 

The illustrations were both colorful and gray...as a rainy day. Overall I give Pitter Patty Finds Another Day 3.976 out of 5 stars. - Katie  




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