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Angelina's Birthday, Katharine Holabird ill. Helen Craig (1989)
Puffin Books 0 141381426 26pp £4.99
A nice illustrated tale, intended to be read to girls aged 3 -
6
 
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The Angelina Ballerina series runs to many volumes, all chronicling
the doings of a dancing mouse. In them, Angelina, and all the other mice,
essentially live the lives of humans - wearing clothes, walking on their
hind legs and taking ballet lessons. Absurd and saccharine as that sounds,
they are nicely drawn and have a considerably charm.
In this tale, Angelina accidentally breaks her much-loved hand-me-down
bike, undertakes lots of tasks to earn money to buy a new one, and leads
family and friends on a birthday bicycle ride once her new mount arrives.
If you want your children to grow up believing that bicycles are everywhere,
this text is rich is useful, subliminal messages. It would also nicely
tee up the gift of a bicycle.
PS Dec 09
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