FICTION

Doctor Nice

by Valeri GORBACHEV
illus. by Valeri Gorbachev. 32p. Holiday House. Oct. 2015. Tr $16.95. ISBN 9780823432035; ebk. $16.95. ISBN 9780823434794.
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PreS-Gr 1—Doctor Nice's patients line up to be seen for various ailments: a crow with a hurt foot, a moose with a cold, goats with headaches, and more. Each one describes what is wrong and implores the doctor to help. Doctor Nice bandages, soothes, and advises until only one patient remains: his mommy, calling the very busy doctor to lunch. Illustrations are done in Gorbachev's distinctive watercolor and ink with the animals appearing life size until Mommy appears. Then the perspective shifts to show the small doctor with his stuffed animal patients.
VERDICT A good choice for young fans of make believe and Doc McStuffins.
Reviewed by Kelly Roth, Bartow County Public Library, Cartersville, GA
Doctor Nice sensitively cares for a wide range of animal patients, dispensing cautionary advice while he bandages wounds and checks symptoms. It's Mommy's turn at story's end, revealing the doc as a child and the patients as stuffed animals. Cross-hatched watercolor and ink illustrations of the assorted critters' injurious antics accompany this warmhearted portrait of a diligent young healthcare expert at work.
 , Sep 01, 2015

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