The Kiddie Table

Colleen Madden's brought this common holiday dilemma to the fore with her humorous take on sitting at The Kiddie Table, a fate worse than death for tweens or anyone for that matter who feels they should be seated with the adults. . . .The cover alone made me want to dive in. The emotional build up of the art flows a bit better than the prose, but the essence of the story, about self-advocacy and that awkward in-between age rings true and something many children will relate to.-- "Good Reads with Ronna"
Thanksgiving dinner is fraught with potential for humiliation. Roiling with indignation, an 8-year-old flower- and sequin-bedecked girl fumes at being made to sit with babies and toddlers at a separate holiday table laden with sippy cups, plastic dinnerware, and diners who carouse with their dishes and gloppy food. . . .The colorful, energetic illustrations, embellished with emphatic display types that match the irate white girl's protests, are expressive and feature secondary characters of diverse skin tones, ages, and sizes...-- "Kirkus Revivews"