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Reeve Lindbergh is the youngest child of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and the author of numerous books. She lives with her family near St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Lindbergh's ( The Day the Goose Got Loose ) breezy rhyme describes early-morning commotion just outside a girl's window: ``There's a cow in the road! / And it sure is a shock / When I first wake up / At seven o'clock''). With just enough repetition to encourage young listeners to chime in, the verse tells how the cow is joined by a goat, then a sheep and so on until six antic animals become a ``crowd in the road'' and create some good-natured chaos. Pearson's pen-and-ink and watercolor pictures both contain engaging details (toys stashed under a bed; the amazed expressions of passers-by) and chronicle droll doings not mentioned in the text (a baby in a highchair flings cereal onto the family dog; the goat nonchalantly chews the contents of an unsuspecting paperboy's bag and later nibbles on the narrator's homework). The result is a great deal of kid-pleasing, between-the-lines action. Ages 4-7. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Getting ready for school one morning, a girl watches as assorted farmyard denizens assemble outside her house. Whenever the cow, who was first on the scene, gives a 'moo,' a new animal joins the congregation. Comic details in the pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations extend the fun of the lighthearted story, told in rhyme. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
``...She's a big one too,/Browsing on blossoms/Drenched with dew.'' In spritely verse, a child getting ready for school reports the drama accumulating outside her Vermont farmhouse window: traffic halts, minutes pass, and more animals congregate- -plus a paperboy treed by ``...a goat in the road! At the edge of our drive/As I pull on my socks/At seven-oh-five.'' By the time the school bus comes at ``seven forty-four,'' there are half a dozen noisy, friendly creatures waiting with the kids. The cadence propels the verse like a well-oiled ticking clock, while Pearson's dancing lines and effervescent watercolors embroider the humor at every turn, from a heap of toy animals on the little girl's bed--as numerous as those outdoors--to the cheerful crowd waving goodbye at the end. A joyous, comical pacesetter for a busy morning. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 3-6. In a funny, rhyming verse with lots of satisfying repetition, a small girl is rushing to beat the clock and get ready for school when she sees first a cow and then other barnyard animals one after another, in the road outside her house. The cartoon-style line-and-watercolor illustrations show chaos within a bucolic village setting. Traffic's held up as the cow smells the blossoms and a horse shows off, and a sheep, a pig, a goose, and a goat join the crowd. There's a running joke in the pictures: the poor, harried paperboy, trying to get away from the animals, as they chew on his newspapers and literally drive him up a tree. The clutter inside the girl's house is as messy as the scene outside, and by the time she has dressed, grabbed her homework, and gobbled breakfast, her family and the barnyard animals are all lined up together by the roadside to see her off when the school bus comes at a quarter to eight. The story has warmth and vitality and a sense of community: "There's a crowd in the road! / And it sure feels good / To wait all together / In our neighborhood." ~--Hazel Rochman
