My friend Anna mentioned this as one of her favorites. The drawing is similar to Crumb and its outstanding. The stories are fabulous. ( )

I am in a minority here, but I was not impressed by this book. My grandson walked away when I continued to read it after he asked me to read something else. He did like the illustrations though. Old fashioned stories about Mitzi, her brother and parents. ( )

Sweet collection of three stories told by parents to their little girl. Lots of details in the text and pictures. I liked the illustrator's choice of stores: antiques, art supplies, books, along with a chewing-gum store to more the plot along. It seems to take place in New York City and, based on the tags assigned to this book, the family seems to be Jewish but the location and ethnicity of the family is unspecified in the stories.

I love the first two stories of this book. One is about little Mitzi trying to take her little brother to her grandparents while her parents are still asleep, the second one about everyone in the house getting a cold - and who can take care of them when they all have a cold? I thought the third one, about the President and chewing gum, was a bit too far-fetched, though.
The pictures are lovely, and so is the distinctive writing style with all those repetitions. ( )