Where is Your Sister?

Saturday is shopping day for Mum, Harriet and her twin sister who narrates this story set in a busy department store. What makes this a tolerable experience is the store’s café with cake. On this occasion though, Mum announces that they’ve no time to stop at the café and as they rush hither and thither, the discussion about the possibility of cake of various kinds continues between mother and narrator. Harriet however, is distracted by a dog and becomes separated from the other two.

There follows a madcap search through the entire store as mother and girl dash frantically through every department never quite getting close enough to Harriet to catch up with her but in so doing thoroughly embarrassing the narrator until following a flying leap on Mum’s part the three are reunited. Guess what they do to celebrate …

Using only reds, blues, black and white the author/illustrator has created a series of superbly funny scenes that with a plethora of spotted and striped patterns serve to heighten the frenzy of the searchers and shoppers. I love Harriet’s final throwaway comment, “On Monday it’s your turn to distract Mum.” Readers can add to their enjoyment as they search the busy scenes wherein the missing girl is hiding in plain sight in this engaging romp