[.ca] Maisy's Pool (ISBN 0744572177)

From Amazon.co.uk:
Maisy's Pool is a delightful story, designed to let young children see that reading can be fun. Maisy and Tallulah are feeling the heat. It's a sunny day, so the obvious thing to do is to get out the paddling pool, fill it with water, then cool off. Here is another story in the very popular Maisy series, one to which children can easily relate. The book contains brightly coloured, board pages and is chunky and easy to handle. The characters are stimulating and amusing, and it contains an imaginative twist when Eddy the Elephant decides to join them and sit in the pool. (3 years and above). --Susan Naylor

Perfect for one-year-olds!:
I've read this book so many times to my 15-month-old, I can recite it from memory! He started going nuts for it around the time he turned one; that's when he wanted a little more of a story line. This book and the other three in the group (Maisy's Bedtime, Maisy Dresses Up, and Maisy Makes Gingerbread) are one step up from the one-picture-and-one-word per page kinds of books for babies, but not so high up that they start having way too much text per page. A typical page in this book is "Maisy and Talullah are feeling hot." Just one or two simple sentences and one wonderful bright Lucy Cousins illustration per page-spread; ten page-spreads total.

A Hot Day at Maisy's Place:
If you are the parent of a young child, you probably know who Maisy is. She's a mouse with a duck, a squirrel, an elephant, and a crocodile for friends. Why the crocodile isn't trying to eat the others is beyond me, but that's life in Maisy's workd. Both of my daughters love the Maisy books; there's something about their simple stories and colorful pictures that even appeals to adults. The books are short and easy to read. But, the stories are never obnoxiously simplistic, like so many other books for small children. It's a hot summer day and Maisy pulls out her pool to cool off. But she runs into a few problems when she finds a leak in the pool and then has her friend Eddie the Elephant decide to sit in it. Will Maisy ever be able to cool off?