One Potato Review

Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but probably one of Lobel’s fondest and most sympathetic creations. This is Toad minus Frog and the sloth. Overwhelmed by the wind and the snow at his door, afraid of his feet, and (most memorably) making himself a pot of tear water tea by considering the essential tragedies of chairs with broken legs, and spoons that have fallen behind the stove, and pencils that are too short to use. That tea is finally a celebratory affair, but the moon from Owl’s window in the last of these stories is indelibly elegiac. A worthy beginning to any lifelong love of books.