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Harrison Loved His Umbrella
  • Published: 15 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179918
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $37.99

Harrison Loved His Umbrella

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14 June 2016
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15 June 2016
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In this charming and witty book, a little boy refuses to close his umbrella and soon all his friends follow suit. Karla Kuskin's vibrant color illustrations bring Rhoda Levine's playful tale to life. All will delight in this irreverent story about a boy and his beloved umbrella, and the ruckus he causes when he keeps it open, rain or shine.

Harrison liked to hold his umbrella in the rain. He also held it in the sun.He found it very helpful in the snow. But most of all he loved to hold it open in the house.

In fact, Harrison was the only child on his block to hold an open umbrella in his hand all the time. How his friends admired him! 

Then one rainy day, after the rain was over, all the children held umbrellas, and they, too, continued to hold the umbrellas open. They all found them useful in the sun, helpful in the snow, and loved them in the house. 

Complications? Of course! But that’s all part of the story.
  • Published: 15 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179918
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $37.99
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Praise for Harrison Loved His Umbrella

"The little boy in Harrison Loved His Umbrella ... by Rhoda Levine, was so devoted to his umbrella that he never would close it, indoors or out... [a] witty commentary on the be­havior patterns of children and parents ... Karla Kuskin offers a series of enchanting vistas of people and umbrellas. Pagefuls of parasols give way to pagefuls of hats." --Alberta Eiseman, The New York Times

"Harrison was a fashion-first type. He carted his open umbrella through thick and thin, rain and shine, outdoors and in. Soon, he had his contemporaries doing the same. Parents began begging for the sight of small faces perpetually hidden behind open umbrellas. At just the point where the pages blossom with colorful bumbershoots, Harrison, a Man-of-the-Hour and many a whim, turns up minus umbrella coolly casting a spinning, whistling yo-yo while his collected friends undergo the birth of a new desire. This pokes nice fun at junior faddists ... Brightly colored, simply drawn illustrations have caught the mood of the story." --Kirkus Reviews

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This is, of course, a must for the many Edward Gorey fans of all ages, and a chance to discover the fine poetry of Rhoda Levine. I read this one to my five-year-old granddaughter because it is just long enough to be engaging and just short enough to be wiggle proof, and just wise enough to set a young imagination free as a bird.
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[The] story...achieves a sensitive equilibrium of pathos and humor, a total effect that is sentimental without apology and optimistic without reason.
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