Kari's Corner

Rodeo Red by Maripat Perkins and Molly Idle

 

            Rodeo Red is one of our new children’s books.  The main character is a little girl called Rodeo Red.  She has a new baby brother, Slim.  Slim comes in and starts taking over her territory.  One day Slim takes Rusty, her beloved sidekick stuffed animal.  Rodeo Red must figure out how to get Rusty back from Slim without making him cry and making the Sheriff and her deputy (mom and dad) come running.

            This is a fun children’s book about a child getting a sibling.  The book is written cute and the language flows rather nicely as you read it out loud to your kids.  It is fun for both the kids listening and for the parent reading.  The pictures are fun too.  There is a picture of Slim starting to get mobile and happily pulling big sister Rodeo Red’s hair.  There is also another picture of Rodeo Red having fenced in her brother in a tiny little area, saying that is his area to play and the rest of the room was hers.  When Rodeo Red gets a time-out she is sitting behind a chair that looks like prison bars.

            I found this book especially fun since it reminded me of my own family, a little girl getting used to a younger sibling that is just starting to become mobile.  My three-year-old has even started calling one of her stuffed animals “Rusty.”