6/25/2023 0 Comments Wild feelings by david milgrim![]() Milgrim has a keen eye for detail (e.g., the play "stove" is an upside-down box) and a savvy sense of composition-there's never any question of where readers should look first. No matter what engages his considerable energy, the boy comes across as eager and upbeat, often flashing a wide-mouthed smile that takes up much of his little round head. He feeds the doll, cooks and reads for it, takes care of its boo-boo, and even stops for a sidewalk gab with a female peer while his "baby" sleeps in a stroller and hers dozes in a toy buggy. Most of the play enables the boy to fill non-gender specific parental roles. In the first, he and some friends gather around a wading pool watching their dolls float (or in the case of one doll, sink). The line "Time for swim class./ Time to slide./ Time for stopping./ Time to ride" finds the boy engaged in four different backyard activities, one per page. Milgrim divvies up the day into discrete "times," thereby attributing adult-level importance to each activity. Readers follow a boy and his trusty doll from waking (before the rest of the house, of course) to bedtime. ![]() ![]() ![]() , a concise rhyming text here depicts an unnamed child in a series of slice-of-life events. ![]()
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