Tinka - Hardcover

Rainy Dohaney's work has appeared frequently in the New York Times and other publications under another name. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and a hermit crab named Luca.

PreS-Gr. 1. Tinka is the smallest sheep anyone has ever seen--the size of a cupcake, to be precise. Needless to say, her diminutive size presents some distinct disadvantages: she produces only enough wool for a hamster sweater, she could easily be squished by the other sheep, and she isn't even tall enough to see the large purple spider that appears on a distant hilltop each spring. Tinka's forlorn tale turns, however, after her friend Sooty the crow flies her to see the purple spider up close. As it turns out, the spider is actually an oddly shaped patch of thousands of tiny purple flowers. Tiny Tinka triumphantly returns to the farm with her important news, and she realizes for the first time that not just being one of the sheep has its advantages. Readers could spend hours discovering the many comical details in Dohaney's soft-edged, watercolor and colored pencil illustrations, reminiscent of Peter Sis's work, that give cuddly warmth to a familiar message. Karin Snelson
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