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PreS This well-designed book with playful fonts is accompanied by magical, arresting illustrations that will captivate young children. The bold boy in his red, knitted hat finds a pea. "Then he did a little dance and he sang a little song, and off he toddled." This refrain repeats throughout. He asks a woman to keep it safe, but her hen eats it, and the boy takes the hen. He then takes a pig from an old ma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jane Ray sets the verdant greens of springtime against a bright blue sky to illustrate this tale's buoyant optimism. Arrows lead us from the endpapers to the stylized bold boy on the title page, announced in a bold, thick, sans-serif type. Doyle's boy cons first an old woman, then an old man, and last a young girl in three adjacent villages to watch first his pea (which he has just found), then his hen (which ate ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More