Keats does an amazing job of showing children how a blended family works. Louie is an adventorous boy, just like many other kids. In turn making this story very relatable. ( )

In the story Louie is just looking for someone to be his father. He walks up and down the streets of the city looking for someone to be his father. He says that in his neighborhood no one notices children around there. This made me think that there are either very few children or that the adults there just don't want to be bothered with them. As Louie is minding his own business,looking for a father, when a furniture truck passes by and out falls a little music box, so he decides to take it home. The driver notices Louie take the music box and follows him home to confront Louie about stealing his box. The driver is not very nice to Louie or his mom at all, and is yelling and screaming at both of them. After the guy finally calms down, he apologizes and realized that Louie did not steal the music box after all. The guy then began to explain that the music box never played music for him like it did for Louie, so he decides to give the box to Louie and that is where his search finally ends. Louie's mom marries the man and that is when Louie's search is finally over for a father. This was a very heartwarming story to read and I can almost relate to Louie in some ways. I come from a split family myself and I know when I was younger before my dad and mom found their significant other, I almost felt a void like someone else should be there now that my parents are not together anymore. Not that I didn't have a father like Louie but I kind of understand how he probably felt in the story. ( )

This book was about Louie trying to find a father in a busy city. I did not really care for the way that it was set up. It was very choppy and did not flow well. It seemed that one minute the man was yelling at Louie and the next he was marrying Louie's mother. I gave it 2.5 stars because the flow of the book was not good. ( )

Show's children that even though they don't have two parent's and no one pays attention to them someone will and is
Age: 4 - 8
Source: Pierce County Library ( )

Louie is on the search for a father. Louie doesn't have a father, so he goes off into the city to find one of his own. He realizes how no one in the town notices a little boy like him. As he's walking, he saw something falls out of the back of someone's truck; It's a music box. The man in the truck then sees him and thinks that Louie stole the box, so he went off to Louie's home to tell his mother that his son is "a crook." After this Barney, the man realized that Louie didn't steal the box. He started to get closer with Louie and his mother and a few months later Barney and his mother get married. Louie found himself a father that day. This book brings up the idea of children who might not have a father and how they feel. I feel like this book would be good to read to children so they will be aware that some kids might not have a father. ( )