{"id":145,"date":"2008-06-12T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/review-of-millie-waits-for-the-mail-by-alexander-steffensmeier\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T22:41:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T02:41:02","slug":"review-of-millie-waits-for-the-mail-by-alexander-steffensmeier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Review of Millie Waits for the Mail, by Alexander Steffensmeier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image234\" height=\"239\" alt=\"millie_waits.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/millie_waits.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Millie Waits for the Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Alexander Steffensmeier<\/p>\n<p>Walker &#038; Company, New York, 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First published in Germany in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Starred Review.<\/p>\n<p>This book was originally written in German, under the title, <em>Liselotte Lauert.\u00a0 <\/em>I want a copy!\u00a0 This udderly (sorry) silly book was my absolute favorite of the Picture Books chosen for the Summer Reading Program.<\/p>\n<p>Millie the cow waits every morning for her favorite time of day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Because there was something Millie loved more than anything else &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scaring the mail carrier. . .\u00a0 and chasing him off the farm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Millie spends each morning looking for a new hiding place.\u00a0 The poor mail carrier has nightmares every night.\u00a0 The poor farmer has all her packages arrive broken.<\/p>\n<p>Millie must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful silliness of this book (How on earth did Alexander Steffensmeier think of writing a book about a cow scaring the mail carrier?) is especially evident in the illustrations.\u00a0 The look in Millie&#8217;s eye as she scours the farmyard for hiding places is priceless.\u00a0 The page where Millie first jumps out and scares the mail carrier got a big reaction from the kids every time I showed it to them.\u00a0 A big reaction from the adults in the room, too.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say?\u00a0 This book makes me laugh every time I look at it.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t promote good, noble purposes.\u00a0 But it is absolutely, delightfully, wonderfully Silly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkeryoungreaders.com\/\">http:\/\/www.walkeryoungreaders.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802796621\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/millie_waits_for_the_mail.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/millie_waits_for_the_mail.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier Walker &#038; Company, New York, 2007.\u00a0 First published in Germany in 2006. Starred Review. This book was originally written in German, under the title, Liselotte Lauert.\u00a0 I want a copy!\u00a0 This udderly (sorry) silly book was my absolute favorite of the Picture Books chosen for the Summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}