Sophy and Auntie Pearl

From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 2?When Sophy wakes up one morning and joyfully discovers she can fly, only one adult, Great-Aunt Pearl, can appreciate the phenomenon. Children and animals gaze up at the child in awe, but other adults simply don't or won't notice. Auntie Pearl, who can fly also, has received the same discouraging reaction. She and Sophy have a marvelous airborne excursion, peering in second-story shop windows, meeting a giraffe face to face, and enjoying ice cream among the clouds. But "when they got home, no one noticed they'd been gone." The simple, charming text, printed with large clarity in an elegant typeface, is formally arranged opposite full-page, framed colored-pencil illustrations. Seen from various perspectives, the expertly rendered, realistic indoor and outdoor scenes of everyday life are made magical with floods of light and the exuberance of the pair as they prance gleefully across the sky. Too bad that lovely flights of fancy seem to be limited to the young and old, who are so much less immersed in mundane matters. Children will relish this message.?Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VACopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From