Curb Your Enthusiam! Lola Dutch by Kenneth Wright

THIS IS LOLA DUTCH.

LOLA DUTCH IS A LITTLE BIT MUCH.

Lola wakes up for the day with more ideas than she has daylight! But first, Bear points out, he needs a modest bite of breakfast.

... TEA AND TOAST?

Oh, no. Lola Dutch will settle for nothing less than a grandiose brunch. There's a rococo pot of hot cocoa with marshmallows, down-home grits and gravy for Gator, posh pastries for Pig, lacy crepes for Crane, and whipped cream for... whatever!

Does Lola overdo it? Yes! Even her cleanup with suds and mop is over the top!

Then she's off for the day's adventures. The library is just one of her stops. While Pig picks inventors and Crane cruises among the great writers, Lola Dutch discovers that she loves the Mona Lisa of Da Vinci and the water lilies of Monet, and all those other great paintings. She's got to stock up on art books and hurry home to create her own versions of the famed works of the Masters. With canvases prepped by Crane, pots of paint and bunches of brushes provided by Bear and Gator, Lola paints Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on her own ceiling.

VOILA!

BEAR SMILED. "LOLA DUTCH, YOU ARE JUST TOO MUCH!"

But even at the end of the day, bedtime is a big deal for Lola, in Kenneth Wright's tale of an over-the-top moppet, Lola Dutch (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). Some energetic youngsters don't know where to stop with their enthusiasms, and Lola Dutch is an object lesson in too much of a good thing, all handled with good-natured hyperbole by author Kenneth Wright. His partner in extravagant excess, artist Sarah Jane Wright, thoughtfully provides Lola Dutch with a sizable cleanup crew when too much disorder develops in her wake. After all, even Lola has to throw in the towel and call for a little help from her friends. With a lighthearted and lovely lesson is taking on too much, young readers will delight in Lola's joie de vive and all it brings, illustrated with elan' and a tasteful touch of art history. As Publishers Weekly says, "Sarah Jane Wright's gouache and watercolor pictures bring a chic elegance to each page."