Overview
A playful journey into a child's imagination.
"In my new yellow shirt
I am a duck quacking,splashing through a big puddle of sun.
Watch out! Now I'm a taxi— HONK! HONK! —zooming down the street."
When a little boy gets a plain yellow shirt for his birthday, his friend Sam thinks it's a very ordinary gift. But the birthday boy has other ideas. Before long, he has transformed himself into many wonderful yellow things.
In this cheerful story, Eileen Spinelli's energetic text and Hideko Takahashi's vibrant pictures prove that, with imagination, the sky's the limit.
A boy wears his new yellow shirt and is transformed in his imagination into a duck, a lion, a daffodil, a trumpet, and other things.
Synopsis
A playful journey into a child's imagination.
"In my new yellow shirt
I am a duck quacking,splashing through a big puddle of sun.
Watch out! Now I'm a taxi— HONK! HONK! —zooming down the street."
When a little boy gets a plain yellow shirt for his birthday, his friend Sam thinks it's a very ordinary gift. But the birthday boy has other ideas. Before long, he has transformed himself into many wonderful yellow things.
In this cheerful story, Eileen Spinelli's energetic text and Hideko Takahashi's vibrant pictures prove that, with imagination, the sky's the limit.
Children's Literature
A yellow shirt received as a birthday present is all a little boy needs to spark his imagination. The bold, acrylic illustrations clearly portray the children's facial expressions as the boy opens the gift from Aunt Betty. His best friend Sam says aloud what all the other guests at the birthday party are thinking, "A yellow shirt! That's no fun!" The boy decides Sam is wrong because when he puts on his bright yellow shirt he can play at being many things. Out in his little backyard swimming pool, the boy is a duck in a puddle of sun. Later he is a ferocious lion stalking a neighbor's garden and when he tires, he turns into a snoozing caterpillar. In his yellow shirt he can become a tennis ball or a daffodil or even the brass trumpet in a parade. The boy is unafraid as he goes to bed because, after the lights are turned off, his "new yellow shirt is a smile of moon" as he falls to sleep. Another excellent bedtime story by the author of If You Want to Find Golden. Reviewer: Carolyn Mott Ford