If You Get Lost by Deborah Marcero, Nikki Loftin
ISBN: 0593375319
Genres: Fantasy
Format: Picture Book Fiction
Source: MSL Book Review
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A few years ago I was searching for books to read at Story Time about being lost and practical advice about what you should do if you get lost. I was hoping that this book would be a solution, but alas it was not what I was hoping for. Perhaps this disappointment colored my impression of the book. It begins with a brown-skinned, dark hair girl holding a stuffed rabbit out the car window on the way to a camping trip. The bunny is lost in the woods and then reality and fantasy blur. It seems to come to life accompanied by esoteric language about being “lost” -…find one thing, one place, one smile, one friend. “If you get lost and you might get lost you could get lost – let go of lost…” At the end of the book, the bunny is rejoined with the girl and accompanied by the wild animals around a campfire. The accompanying brightly-colored watercolor-and-ink illustrations  ground the story. The illustrations truly are lovely but not sure if they are enough to carry the obscure text. I am not sure who would be the reader for this book – perhaps someone with depression or anxiety issues.

 

Barb Rehmeyer, Liberty Library