The narrator's offhand, unruffled voice ('So Harriet called in a favor from some friends she knew') makes Harriet's intrepid adventure a delightful readaloud. Harriet is a resourceful city child, the kind of girl who has no problem negotiating with an orca (she trades her red bow tie for a lift). HARRIET GETS CARRIED AWAY by Jessie Sima illustrated by Jessie Sima RELEASE DATE: MaThick purple outlines in illustrations in predominantly lavender shades, coupled with an imaginative storyline, bring to mind Harold and the Purple Crayon. Readers who fear that Harriet will be marooned or miss her birthday party will relax as an orca and a flock of pigeons help bring her back to the store, and the party goes off without a hitch. Before she knows it, Harriet is aloft with them in their hot-air balloon, headed back to their polar home.

Harriet gets carried away with the flock. But when Harriet dons her special penguin errand-running costume and sets out to find the perfect ones, she finds something else instead - real penguins. When she realizes she really wants to be back with her dads in the city, some creative bargaining gets her back in time for her. While shopping for snacks and party hats with her two dads, Harriet finds a passel of penguins and follows them home. There's just one thing missing - party hats. HARRIET GETS CARRIED AWAY by Jessie Sima is a picture book about a girl who loves to dress up in costumes and sometimes gets carried away - literally. Dressed as a penguin, Harriet who has dark skin, curly hair, and two fathers heads to the grocery store with her dads before her birthday party, where she discovers a group of actual penguins replenishing their supply of bagged ice. Harriet has her most favorite costume all picked out for the big day. Dress-up-loving Harriet wears costumes everywhere in one early scene, Sima (Not Quite Narwhal) shows her in the dentist's chair, opening her mouth wide while inside an equally toothy dinosaur outfit.