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Reviewed by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
Red Knit Cap Girl To The Rescue by Naoko Stoop is a precious book from cover to cover! Intended for early elementary children, it begins by introducing children to Red Knit Cap Girl and her friend White Bunny. All animals are called by their categorical names (Bear Owl and so forth). It is a simplicity which then allows children to remember the animal rather than the name and the story then flows freely. Red Knit Cap Girl looks through her paper telescope and sees something on the water. A lost Polar Bear Cub is spotted sitting on a small ice floe. White Bunny and Red Knit Cap Girl immediately see the need to take action and they devise a means to reach the bear. Bringing Polar Bear Cub back to their forest, the little animal is adopted by the forest occupants. The animals all see the need to reunite Polar Bear Cub with his family but they are stumped as to how. They ask for help from nature and the Moon responds. They prepare to follow the directions of the Moon in order to return Polar Bear Cub to his family.
The way the creatures use what is available to them teaches resourcefulness to young listeners who might even offer suggestions as the story proceeds. There are many emotions included in Red Knit Cap Girl. Author Stoop suggests concepts of fear, helpfulness, ingenuity, inquisitiveness, and joy in relating how the child and the forest animals can use available resources and common reasoning in order to solve problems. Stoop has beautifully illustrated her story such that younger children will sit enthralled to the end. There is a general message of cooperation and hope that small acts of kindness may lead to the coming together of nations in order that issues may indeed be resolved in a nonthreatening manner. This is a beautiful book!
