Soo's Boo-Boos

PreS-K—Wearing purple tennis shoes, a tutu, striped socks, and a polka-dot headband, Soo enters the family kitchen announcing that she has 10 boo-boos. Her mother asks for a countdown, so Soo enumerates the cause of each malady, from toe rub to chapped lips, waffle-burned tongue to too-tight ponytail. "And let me show/you boo-boo 2./My big toe rubs/inside my shoe." Mom comes to the rescue for a reverse count, addressing each problem in ideal fashion. "And 8, a mean mosquito bite./Needs a kiss to make it right." Once mended, Soo heads out to play on her scooter. The clever endpapers have multicolored bandages in varying shapes for more counting fun. McNicholas's lively drawings pop with comic poses and expressions. Mom is fashionable and good-humored, only briefly coddling the energetic "patient," who is sure to return home with more "boo-boos."—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA