When Alice wins an enormous basket of lollipops in the raffle she's happy to share her good fortune with friends and classmates... but everyone seems to have a different opinion about how she should divide the bounty. Suddenly, Alice's big prize becomes a big conundrum. Should she give extras to her friends? Should she withhold lollipops from the kids who always hog the tire swing? As she weighs her options, the panic grows. What if there aren't enough to go around!?
Sharing the lollipops with her classmates is so much more complicated than it seemed. Can she find a fair way to divvy up the sweets? This hilarious and thought-provoking story uses lollipops in the school yard to illustrate how cooperation and generosity can make even the most daunting problems solvable.
"Player’s (Paletero Man) digital cartooning uses a candy-hued palette to emphasize the school’s escalating mania, with compositions that lean into the book’s horizontal format offering a sense of the commotion’s emotional and geographic sweep. Finally, Alice insists the kids line up for the treats, and sanity is restored: some realize that lollipops aren’t such a big deal, apologies are proffered to offended parties, and it turns out there are more than enough to go around. Though Maynor (A House for Every Bird) plays it all for laughs, the story should spark conversations about scarcity mindset." — Publishers Weekly
Recommended Age | 4 - 7 |
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Author | Megan Maynor |
Illustrator | Micah Player |
ISBN | 0593372565 |
Publication Date | Feb 8, 2022 |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Language | English |