What kid hasn’t made a massive pillow fort and imagined all sorts of adventures? Well, Berkner’s premise is that there is a land where everything is made of pillows, and three lucky children get to visit there. 3-7)īerkner’s children’s song gets the picture-book treatment with illustrations from Garoche. His artwork is detailed enough to satisfy, but stops well short of scaring the intended audience with excessive realism. By limiting his palette to the primary colors, Hector evokes an earlier period in publishing, while at the same time incorporating modern art into the décor of each apartment. The verse’s modified “House That Jack Built” format gives youngsters the opportunity to seek and find within the illustrations. In an unfortunate misstep between text and illustrations, the rescue of the people prompts no emotion while the cat’s emergence is greeted with cheers from the whole crowd. Sans mask, our hero goes back in to rescue it. Down on the ground, health workers check the rescued, and a young girl spots her cat in a window. A burning apartment building sends the firefighters racing they dash up the stairs, use the axe on the door and rescue some people trapped inside. The rhyming text introduces readers to a heroic firefighter, his station and his equipment. Yet another firefighting tale that emphasizes the rescue of a pet.
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