School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-Despite a raging blizzard, a boy valiantly trudges toward his destination, until his friends find him and announce that school has been canceled. Swirling watercolors complement this humorous ode to an overactive imagination. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In PW's words, "Young fans of irony-fortified humor will get a hoot out of O'Malley's snowy spoof." Ages 4-8. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Pushing on alone through a raging blizzard, barely able to stand, a boy struggles to reach the pole--the signpost for the school bus stop. There, his friends greet him with the joyful news that school has been canceled. This delightful tale's hyperbole is heightened by lively watercolor and pen illustrations of swirling snow and indistinct shapes. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A muffled figure leans into the wind, struggling through drifts and swirls of snow, falling forward to crawl on hands and knees to reach The Pole at last . . . no, not that sort of Pole: the kind with a sign on top. And what does that sign read? O'Malley keeps mum until two friends come out of the mists to the rescue, with news that school's been cancelled. In the last picture, an abandoned backpack rests beneath a "Bus Stop." A short but suitably melodramatic text--"Can't go on. CAN'T . . . GO . . . on. (I told Mom this would happen)"--accompanies this epic journey, captured in a succession of rolling, full-bleed, zero-visibility scenes. Never has the daily venture to school been so fraught--if only in the venturer's mind--than in this natural companion for Patricia Lakin's hilarious Snow Day (2002), which puts a very different twist on a similar scenario. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.