In this elaboration on an ancient French song, a king, queen, and prince with an increasingly large retinue try to pay a call on a young boy who is rarely home. 'One Monday morning the king, the queen, and the little prince came to visit me. But i wasn't home . . . '
'Beautiful, easy to read fun, with an interplay between text and pictures always sought for, seldom encountered.'--starred, School Library Journal 'The idea of the story is so childlike, the telling of it so effortless, and the book executed with such distinction that it belongs naturally among the true picture books we seem always to have had . . . A book no child should miss.'--The Horn Book |