Mine!

Mine! By Kevin Luthardt

This is a semi wordless picture book. Some pages have no words at all, and the other pages that have words only have a few. All of the text is in conversation bubbles, they are between these two little boys. They are brothers, and they get a package in the mail and don't know who it's for. They both assume it is for them and they fight over what's inside, which ends up being a stuffed animal dinosaur. The mom becomes involved once the dinosaur is almost torn in half from the two boys. She sends them to their room, and after awhile of sitting out, they come back to play and they both share the toy saying "yours, yours" a lot.

As I was reading the story I was wondering who sent them the package. I looked back at the beginning and it says both of the boy's names on the box, and the return address is from Granny. I'm wondering why though that Granny only sent one stuffed animal for the two of them, because the package says "Toby and Marcus."

The pictures are very bold, and there is a great use of color in the pictures. The pictures are large, and not a ton of detail which seems to fit the story, because it is not a difficult book. There is a white border around the pages so it makes the pictures stand out. I think this a good sharing book for kids who can't read or barely read.