Milkman jacket. Milkman hat.
Cranky pickup. Cranky cat.
Milk truck waiting. Loading fast.
Ice cream. Milk. Eggs. Cat in last.
Musical verse accompanies a milkman and his cranky kitty as they make their morning rounds. The milkman knows his hometown: he knows who needs ice cream for a birthday party, who just broke a leg, who has a new baby. He even helps to return a lost dog that’s hiding along his route to a little girl name Caroline. This pitch-perfect, retro read-aloud’s gentle sensibility is ideally matched with beautiful art that powerfully evokes an era of classic illustration.
"Imagistic sentence fragments that put the listener inside Mr. Plimpton’s loping form invite a hushed, breathy reading..." -Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review
