Niki Yektai

I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because the characters where very believable. The only two characters in the book were a small child and his mom. Throughout the book, the child was trying to dress himself but he couldn’t put his clothes on the right body part so he would argue with his clothes and pretend they had a mind of their own. Meanwhile the mother Is becoming more and more impatient because she has to get going and her son Patrick is taking to long. Both characters act as they would in the real word. I did not like this book because of the illustrations. The way the illustrations were drawn seems very messy and fast. The picture were colored with a watercolor style so the color did not always stay in the lines of the drawing making everything kind of blend together on the page. The illustrations did not seem to add anything to the book. The big idea of this book was about children becoming more independent and starting to do things themselves and just growing up in general.… (more)