This book is good for primary students. This book is "Where is Mommy?" written and illustrated by Pat Cummings and published in 2019. This book is about a little girl who lost her mom. She uses context clues around her house to finally figure out that her mom is in the garden! This would be a good book to teach about problem solving got children and just a fun book to read to young children. It is an easy reader so it is easy for young kids to learn to read on their own as well.

Where is mommy
Pat Cummings
A girl of color is waking up from a nap on the couch with her cat Max. She is looking for her mother but can’t find her. They find a lot of her belongings, like her slippers and her scarf but mommy is nowhere to be found. The girl starts to wear all the things she can which look kind of silly. The reader does get a glimpse of someone else in the house. The girl makes it into a scavenger hunt, following the trail around the house. The cat follows. She even draws a picture of her mom to help her find her.
Cummings, author and illustrator of many books, made the text very simple and the font is large for the early and beginning readers. Illustrations are colorful.
The reviewer had a hardback copy which was larger than your average reader. The publisher uses a letter system for its reading level and has it at level D fit for end of kindergarten according to the publisher
Written
AD+
Pre Kindergarten through 1st grade ( )

I've been faithfully purchasing Holiday House's I Like To Read titles, since they're one of the few easy reader series to offer titles in the A-E guided reading levels, but I have mixed feelings about some of them.

This one is a level D, so a little more complex. The pictures are pleasant, but the story is kind of bland. The endpages show a black girl curled up on the couch with her mother and the cat, reading together. Then the title page shows the girl alone, waking up from her nap, the cat still sleeping on her lap. She grabs the cat who makes a dive for the coffee, then wonders "Where is Mommy?" The rest of the story shows her looking for her mother, while glimpses through the window and various clues show that she's in the garden. Eventually, just as Mommy returns with a basket of kale, she figures out where Mommy has been.

The art is simple and colorful and it's nice to see a black mother and daughter enjoying reading and gardening together, but the girl is nearly as tall as her mother. She has to be at least seven but her behavior is more suitable to a preschooler.

Verdict: While this isn't my favorite, it's a good choice for very young children who are learning to read and the simple art will let them concentrate on the words while still following the clues to solve the mystery.

ISBN: 9780823439355; Published November 2019 by Holiday House; Purchased for the library