Rosie to the Rescue

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0805064869, Hardcover)

"Hardcover: 32 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.37 x 9.48 x 8.18 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); 1st edition (April 1, 2003) ISBN: 0805064869 Ages 4-8 Dealing with a common preschooler fear, this amusing book will hit the spot with apprehensive youngsters. Rosie the squirrel worries that her mother and father won't come home. She asks her Aunt Lily, ""What if something happened? What if- what if- a tiger ate them?"" And then she answers her own question: ""But I would rescue them-. I would chase that tiger until he let them free."" After several scary speculations about her parents' fate, all solved by Rosie, the two return-exactly on time. Chorao's gouache, colored-pencil, and pen-and-ink illustrations are full of humor and action, and bursting with color. The intrepid, endearing heroine is shown coping with every imaginary emergency with insouciance as her aunt admires her bravery."