School Library Journal Review
Toddler-PreS--Geisel Award--winning Yang creates another enticing work for the very smallest book lover. "Go, sled! Go! Oh, bunny! No!" A young child embarks on a thrilling sled ride, picking up a host of animals, people, and experiences, one by one, until the crew crashes through a mountain village, picks up a baker, and finally comes to rest at the base of the mountain. The whimsical text uses repetition and inventive design that imitates the exciting motion of hurtling downhill; the timing is perfect, and the chaos is gratifying. Illustrations are bright, cheerful, and age appropriate. Onlookers, young or old, will start wishing for snow for their own exciting sled rides. VERDICT A worthy addition to any preschool or early childhood library; highly recommended for children and great fun to read aloud.--Brittany McMahon
Publisher's Weekly Review
Exclamatory prose exuberantly narrates this fast-paced, cumulative sledding journey that visualizes a continuous hill running from each verso's top left corner to each recto's bottom right. Spread by spread, a sled comically careens downhill, picking up passengers along the way. At the helm is an elf-like stocking-capped character, portrayed with pink skin, whose alarmed pronouncements--and apologies--are captured with speech bubbles each time the sled scoops up another hillside bystander. "Oh, bunny! No!" the sledder shouts before an apparent collision leaves the hare atop the their head ("Sorry, bunny"). Other encounters fill the vessel with a snowman, moose, and more, each cranking up the comedy (penguins--"on vacation"--scatter like bowling pins before one lands head down in the sled). Arrival at a precipice conveys drama and humor as the whole group loop-de-loops through the sky and, "plop," into the snow. Yang's digital renderings exude a contemporary, geometric aesthetic, coolly emphasizing icy blues in this riotous tobogganing adventure. Ages 3--7. (Oct.)
