Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary. The narrator’s offhand, unruffled voice (“So Harriet called in a favor from some friends she knew”) makes Harriet’s intrepid adventure a delightful readaloud. Harriet gets carried away with the flock. But when Harriet dons her special penguin errand-running costume and sets out to find the perfect ones, she finds something else instead - real penguins. There's just one thing missing - party hats. Harriet Gets Carried Away By Jessie Sima An FLA Children’s Book Award Finalist From the author and illustrator of the bestselling Not Quite Narwhal comes a sweet and funny story about remembering where you belong, no matter how far you roam, or what youre wearing when you get there. Harriet is a resourceful city child, the kind of girl who has no problem negotiating with an orca (she trades her red bow tie for a lift). Harriet has her most favorite costume all picked out for the big day.

Readers who fear that Harriet will be marooned or miss her birthday party will relax as an orca and a flock of pigeons help bring her back to the store, and the party goes off without a hitch. Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima - From the author and illustrator of the bestselling Not Quite Narwhal comes a sweet and funny story about rememberi. Before she knows it, Harriet is aloft with them in their hot-air balloon, headed back to their polar home. Harriet does get carried awayliterallyby a passel of penguins she meets in the frozen food aisle.

Dressed as a penguin, Harriet-who has dark skin, curly hair, and two fathers-heads to the grocery store with her dads before her birthday party, where she discovers a group of actual penguins replenishing their supply of bagged ice. Dress-up-loving Harriet wears costumes everywhere in one early scene, Sima ( Not Quite Narwhal) shows her in the dentist’s chair, opening her mouth wide while inside an equally toothy dinosaur outfit.