The simple playthings, the everyday moments, picking up that hundredth rock -- all of these are brimming with possibility...if you slow down and let the future begin with the small moments of today. Because everything depends on letting a little boy...be a little boy.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
charming:
This is a charming companion to SOMEDAY; although less tender and wistful. Hey, it's for the guys, after all.
Baby gift:
I purchased this title on a whim when a very dear friend of mine and his wife had their first child, a little boy. It just seemed right. I wasn't disappointed. It's a delightful story about a "little boy" and what's important to him. Of all his toys--the big cardboard box--and what parent doesn't understand that?
Captured the joy of boys:
Charming book that the mothers and fathers of boys should read and share with their growing sons.
not for children:
This Father's Day, when a Hallmark just won't cut it but $20 seems like too much to spend, why not give this little gem? Generously borrowing from William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow," each of the rhymed sections in this picture book begins with the phrase "Little Boy, so much depends on..." to inventory the innocent mischief, imaginative play, and rituals of what it means to be a boy. All that and a big cardboard box. Reynolds illustrations are as precious as McGhee's cadences are... more info
