Potato Pants! by Laurie Keller. PICTURE BOOK. Christy Ottaviano Books (Henry Holt), 2018. $18. 9781250107237
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
For one day only a store is selling pants for the potatoes in town. Potato is very excited until he sees an eggplant in the store and is so upset that he refuses to go in. Potato remembers this eggplant from yesterday when the eggplant knocked him over. Potato stews for so long that all the pants sell out before he can get one. While he is fuming, eggplant comes over to apologize for yesterday and we learn that was why he was in the store, to apologize.
This book is very quirky, but it was fun to read aloud and say “potato pants” over and over again. Also, a potato introducing himself by doing the robot was weird enough to be funny. There is a good moral in the story and I think a lot of kids will get a giggle out of the book.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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