GR Level: I, Lexile Level: 250, Grade: 1, Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999, Genre: Picture Book, Children’s Fiction, Pages: 32 Recommended to anyone, parent or child, worried about development schedules. I found Robert Kraus's text quite humorous, especially the depiction of Leo's father and his worried watching, and thought the illustrations by José Aruego, whose artwork I am familiar with from various folkloric retellings he has been involved in, were colorful and appealing. The simple story here gently drives home the point that everyone is on their own schedule, and that it shouldn't be a cause of undue concern when one child develops a skill at a different time than another. Originally published in 1971, this classic picture-book addresses a common childhood (and parent) concern: the feeling that one's development, either overall or in some specific area, is delayed, because it doesn't happen at exactly the same time as it does with one's peers. After much worried watching, his father eventually let him be, and then. His father wondered aloud what the problem was, but his mother counseled patience, declaring that he would bloom when it was his time. He didn't learn to read and write when the other baby animals did, and he couldn't draw, eat neatly, or speak when they could.
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