Editorial Review

“An imaginative little girl goes outside to play after a rainstorm. She meets a brown, blobby creature named Mudkin, who takes her, in a mud-constructed coach, to his home and asks her to be his people’s queen. Another rain shower washes the creatures—but not her memories—away. Spare text, all from the girl’s side of the conversation, makes room for Gammell’s trademark spattery illustrations.” —The Horn Book Guide