One Potato Review

“All this is mine!” shouts a little boy into the wind and the surf, but – rejoice – it is memorably not. Here (as in The Little Boat) Henderson takes a very simple idea, and keeps it simple, layering on the sort of details a child would think are important in a storm: sirens, and windmills looking threatened, smashed flowerpots, rattling doors. There’s also quick a dash out to the beach (depicted on the cover) that is exactly the sort of thing that even a four-year-old might remember forever, because that minute, that morning, that storm was finally when he got big enough to be a part of the story, and not just a sheltered observer. Short, accessible to younger readers, and open to interpretation, large and small.