Will You Come Back for Me?

by Ann Tompert, Robin Kramer (Illustrator)

Overview

Four-year old Suki is worried about being left in day care for the first time until her mother reassures her that she loves her and will always return for her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807591130
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

Editorial Reviews

"The book's warm interplay between mother and daughter is sincere and heartfelt."

Booklist

"This ingenious, therapeutic story is told naturally and with affection."

Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

PreS-K Four-year-old Suki learns that she will be going to daycare while her mother helps her father in the office. The little girl's fears are explored realistically, but the ending is pat and contrived. The fear of separation and of the parent not returning for the child are shown beautifully through Suki's silence during the first daycare visit and in Kramer's expressive ink and colored pencil illustrations. However when Tompert uses Suki's dream about leaving her teddy bear at Brown Bear's School for Teddies, she loses all subtleties in order to hammer home the point that Suki's mother will never forget her since she ``belongs in her heart.'' This book, with its multi-racial characters, may help to ease the fears of going to daycare. In spite of its didacticism, it will be useful in a parenting collection, since so many children are facing daycare and nursery school today. Janet E. Fricker, Warminster Township Free Library, Pa.

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