Hooray for Summer!

Hooray for Summer! (ゆうだちのともだち, Yuudachi no tomodachi; Sudden rain friends) is a children's picture book made by Kazuo Iwamura. The original Japanese book was published in 1986 by Shiko-sha (至光社). The English version was published in 2010 by North South Books.

Three squirrel siblings, named Mack, Mick, and Molly (the names in Japanese are Paro (ぱろ), Piko (ぴこ), and Poro (ぽろ)) befriend some mice in a cave after a thunderstorm drives the squirrels into one.

The three siblings were also in these Iwamura books that had English translations released in 2009: Hooray for Spring! and Hooray for Snow!.[1]

Susan Dove Lempke, in The Horn Book, stated that the style of the work is "old-fashioned".[2]

Lempke praised a two-page depiction of a thunderstorm as being "ingenious".[2]

Kelly Roth of Bartow County Public Library wrote that the book is "A solid addition" to a library.[1]

Reviewer John Peters states that the work is "scary but satisfying".[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Roth, Kelly (May 2010). "Hooray for Summer!". School Library Journal. p. 85 – via EBSCOhost/Wikipedia Library.
  2. 1 2 Lempke, Susan Dove (July–August 2010). "Hooray for Summer!". The Horn Book. pp. 90–91 – via EBSCOhost/Wikipedia Library.
  3. ↑ Peters, John (April 2011). "TL SUMMERTIME". Teacher Librarian. Vol. 38, no. 4. p. 47 – via EBSCOhost/Wikipedia Library.
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