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Busy Beaby Nancy Poydar Ages 4-8 |
Bea was always losing her belongings. It wasn't because she was careless. It was because she was such a busy person." After Bea loses her lunch box, jacket, raincoat, papa's umbrella, and the note that her mother writes to her teacher, Bea's exasperated mother wonders whether Bea would forget her ears if they weren't stuck to the sides of her head! But when Busy Bea finally slows down enough to find her school's lost-and-found, she recovers all of her lost belongings and amazes her mother. Only Bea's grandmother isn't surprised, since she has known all along that Bea is a great "finder." Poydar's soft and sunny watercolor illustrations charmingly capture the zest with which this African American child greets her world. Exuberant and with a flair for minor mishaps, Busy Bea is of the same tribe of little girls as Ramona the Pest. Welcome her story as a picture-book prelude or companion to the popular Cleary classic. — Booklist (Annie Ayres)
A positive response to what some might call carelessness comes across in Grandma's assurance that her energetic granddaughter will outgrow her tendency to misplace things. Joyful watercolors show Bea, an African-American child, simply too engrossed in swinging or talking to friends to remember her belongings at school -- but perfectly capable of finding Grandma's glasses or knitting basket when necessary. — Horn Book
Bea, a little girl who is always forgetting her belongings, must come up with a way to overcome her absentmindedness after she loses the sweater that Grandma had knit for her. — Ingram