One Potato Review

This is a lot of book for the buck, and a lot of illustrations by Arnold Lobel at his mischievous best, and lot of gnomic pronouncements at the end of each of these anecdotes which you are free to skip around if you like. A camel dancing – and loving it, despite poor reviews from the critics – is already inspiring without a postscript. A bear wearing a frying pan on his head to keep up with the latest fashions is by itself plenty pertinent, and three frogs chasing riches at the source of a rainbow find a suitably punishing end. This keeps you on your toes a little: when a wolf disguises himself as an apple tree, there’s always a chance it might work, and when a mouse tells his parents he is going on a trip to the seashore (“We are very afraid,” they cried. “The world is full of terrors!”) he might just meet up with a carving knife, or he might find some quiet epiphany: “All the miles of hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”