An Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Winner

Iris cannot wait to have her first sleepover at her best friend Walter's house. They will put on a puppet show. They will ride Walter's horse, Rain, in their pajamas. They will stay up very, very late. But when it's time to go to sleep, Iris feels homesick. What if having a sleepover wasn't such a good idea?

Iris’s exuberance is reflected in Guest’s text as well as in Davenier’s illustrations that nearly lift the child off the page.

School Library Journal (Starred review)

In the tradition of Arnold Lobel’s classic easy readers about Frog and Toad, the realism here is gentle. Without being sentimental, the simple words and casual, exuberant ink-and-watercolor pictures tell a story of disappointment that doesn’t mean crisis, and of home always waiting to welcome you back.” Booklist