I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.įind more children's book reviews in Reviews in Chalk It is a great story to share in moments like before start school or moving out. The plot follows the well known but always successful pattern: perfect world-> move out of comfort zone-> fear-> take the plunge-> feel good about have done it-> come back home wiser. Herbie is a sweet character you would feel like hugging, if he wasn't covered by needles, of course. When summer comes again, the warm wind blows him back home, where mom is waiting to give him a huge hug and listen all about his experience. As the seasons go on, he learns how to solve the challenges they bring. Herbie misses his mom, but he feels good about this foraging adventure. He fearfully takes the first steps towards the big world, but it happens that the big world has many beautiful things in it.
What's wrong about staying at home with his mom? Herbie is not sure about this exploration thing. When fall comes mom tells him it's time for an adventure by himself. His mom loves him, and to Herbie there's not better place than his mom's arms. Herbie is a lovely hedgehog who was born in the last days of summer. Thank you so much to netgalley, Capstone, and Jennie Poh for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The illustrations are lovely: sweet and natural, with special appeal to children. The words are noisy, soft, soothing, windy, rough, cold, wet at all the right times. The story is told in a way that all the senses are involved.
When Herbie awakens, it is spring and he reunites with his mother.
I interpreted the giant snowman in the story as a version of “Old Man Winter," telling the animal to go to sleep, to hibernate. Indirectly, it also teaches about hibernation. It teaches what it means to be brave, to overcome fears. It teaches about seasons, a mother’s love, leaving home, and separating from mom. This is a beautifully illustrated, endearing story of a hedgehog about to set out to forage on his own for the first time.
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