Andrea Perry

Kirkus: This jaunty cumulative tale has a pleasingly playful complexity, both in the working and in its sense of time. Perry concocts a rhythmic text with unexpected twists and turns, and rather than moving the story forward, it works backward... Meanwhile, the illustrations catch the unraveling of the adventure--at one point the mailman is just a blip on the horizon, deep in the future--until the narrative flips into real time and a new birdbath makes an appearance. Sweetly clever.

School Library Journal: Set in the summer, in a yard of green grass and blooming flowers, this enjoyable read-aloud contains plenty of rhyme, lots of brightly colored illustrations, and one very cute white goose with great balance.