Publishers Weekly
French author/illustrator Beauvisage, in her first children’s book, celebrates the many things a blanket can do. Her young hero has a flair for the adventurous (“With my blankie, I build tents and igloos... I become a pirate... or the King of Rollerblading”), but he’s also happy to use his polka-dotted blanket as a tea party tablecloth (and napkin) and to cuddle with it, of course. The warm golds and reds of the boy’s blanket set a comforting tone in themselves, and the playful presence of a trio of stuffed animals highlights the rich sense of imagination that drives the story. Up to age 3. (Aug.)
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A blankie book with no I-lost-my-blankie trauma? Indeed, this is a 12-page ode to the many glories of the fuzzy (and probably frowsy and cruddy) companion, featuring a brown-haired child dragging his brown and-red blankie through various collage backgrounds. With a Linus-like skill, our protagonist fashions his blankie into an igloo, a wolf, a sailboat sail, a tabletop, and more, though the best thing about it is the
nighttime snuggling. “My blankie is a Super Blankie!” he cries to the general disgruntlement of his overlooked stuffed animals. Sturdy construction makes this the perfect thing for bedtime reading—it won’t get crushed, not even inside a tight blankie embrace.
CM Magazine:
Not every child has a blankie, but, if s/he does, and if it should go missing, life can become pretty stressful for parents until it is retrieved. And the blankie doesn’t have to be an actual blanket. Only one of our three children had what we referred to as his “blankie”, but it was actually the floral housecoat that my wife had worn while he was just an infant and which he later “adopted” and carried around with him everywhere and even slept with as a toddler.
Between the words of the “excerpt” above and the book’s closing lines, “But what I love the most is falling asleep with my blankie. My blankie is a Super Blankie!”, the child narrator, of My Blankie describes how s/he incorporates the blanket into her/his daily play, transforming it into, for example, a tent or an igloo, the sail of a pirate ship or the cape of a king. Despite the blankie’s versatility as a play thing, it ultimately returns to its primary role, an object of security and comfort for the child.
The brief text and cartoon-like illustrations that feature a child that could be either a girl or a boy make My Blankie a good home purchase, especially for a child with a blankie attachment.
