ALICE'S SPECIAL ROOM

As she tells her busy mother, Alice has a room where she can find January's cold or even play with a beloved cat that died last summer. Making a game of Alice's riddle, Mom looks all over the house for the special place before guessing correctly that Alice means her memory. Gackenbach illustrates his pleasant dramatization of an important concept with practiced ease, nicely extending the warm relationships suggested in the text.~(Picture book. 4-8)