Boo eats, sleeps, reads and plays on his favorite little blue chair. When he finally outgrows it, his mom puts it outside with a sign that says "PLEASE TAKE ME." A man in a truck picks it up, and so begins the little blue chair's journey around the world.
The man sells it to a junk shop, where a woman discovers it: "This chair will be perfect, she thought." Its next owner is a boat captain who gets it for his daughter to sit on, right next to him by the ship's wheel. Once on shore, "across the ocean," the captain puts the chair out on the beach with a sign that says "DO YOU NEED THIS?" A man with an elephant does need it, so he can give children elephant rides, which he does for years until he "wrapped it up in brown paper, stuck a lot of stamps on it and put it in the mail to his sister." The chair is perfect for her, too, for use as a bird feeder. Its travels continue.
In Canadian author Cary Fagan's (Mr. Zinger's Hat) Little Blue Chair, children may find deep comfort in the idea that something can move from place to place and still be cherished, in a different way, by each person who encounters it. Canadian debut illustrator Madeline Kloepper's childlike ink and pencil artwork is thoroughly charming, and readers will love tracking the chair all the way back to its original owner, now grown up with a daughter of his own: " 'This chair is perfect,' she said." A scrumptious morsel, both nutritious and delicious. --Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Awareness