Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox
 Erin Dealey
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 2002 Simon & Schuster
  ISBN: 0689829817


When Goldie spies her first spot, her mother knows it must be chicken pox.

In bathroom one morning, while her father is shaving, Goldie Locks discovers she's all polka-dotted with chicken pox.

Mrs. Locks calls Mama Bear, but Baby bear doesn't have spots.

Then Goldie's brother asks if Henny Penny can get chicken pox.

Oh, so many spots all over & little brother connects the dots!

In comes Bo Peep, looking for her sheep. She isn't interested in Goldie's spots.

Little brother is such a pest, yelling & dashing around & so jealous of the ice cream & rest his sister must get.

He's the strongest brother in the world until...

Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox is a fast read, with Hanako Wakiyama's big, bold & orange & red pictures, & Erin Dealey's bright & funny verses!

I remember the chicken “pops” well & even had brothers to help me feel more miserable!

A good book to have around when those dread dots appear!

Erin Dealey was inspired to write this story after her daughter's particularly itchy bout with chicken pox. This is her first book.

Hanako Wakiyama has also suffered through the itchy torment of chicken pox. She is the illustrator of Too Big! by Claire Masurel.
(03/24/02)

Rebecca