Product Description

Lily won't stop crying.
Waa! Waa! Waa!
Lily won't stop crying.
Oh, who knows what to do?
Mother? Father? Grandma?
Who?
Who?
Who?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360671 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2--Baby Lily is inconsolable. One by one, each member of her family tries to stop her tears with lullabies, tickles, a diaper change, food, and toys. However, the refrain points up each one's failure to comfort the tot: "But Lily keeps on crying. Waa! Waa! Waa! Lily keeps on crying. Oh, who knows what to do?" Finally her brother smiles his biggest smile and in the cozy ending, Lily grins back at him. The bouncy, rhythmic text begs to be read aloud, and the artwork is a perfect match. Done in oils, pencil, and collage, the illustrations are filled with Heo's familiar bright colors, and the playful shapes, forms, and details leap off the pages. Each spread plays with perspective and offers surprising views of the action and characters. Frieda Wishinsky's Oonga Boonga (Dutton, 1999) portrays a similar situation but lacks the verve of Smile, Lily! This satisfying, buoyant picture book will appeal to beginning readers as well as to storytime groups or during one-on-one sharing.--Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha's Public Library, WI
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From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 1. "Lily wakes up crying. . . .Who knows what to do?" Mommy says, "I do," but her crooning and soothing have no effect on fussy baby Lily, so Daddy tries, then Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle--all to no avail. Heo creatively applies her strong graphic sense to convey the tyrannical force of a baby's vocal chords: Lily often appears as a wide-mouthed giant dwarfing the adults around her, and the compositions, unmoored from basic rules of perspective, suggest a household in infant-assisted disarray. Children will respond to the saturated nursery colors and stylized figures as well as Fleming's simple, rhythmic text with its repeated wails, "Waa! Waa! Waa!" in successively larger type, which invites children to ham it up. Older siblings will enjoy the empowering ending, in which Lily's big brother confidently intervenes, cracks a grin, and elicits a smile from his little sis. Pair it with Frieda Wishinsky's Oonga Boonga (1999), another tale about an older sibling's special touch with a seemingly inconsolable baby. Jennifer Mattson
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About the Author
Candace Fleming is the versatile author of Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, When Agnes Caws, and Gabriella's Song, all American Library Association notable books; as well as Ben Franklin's Almanac, a biography of the great American and a Junior Library Guild selection. She lives with her husband and two sons in a suburb of Chicago.