I Always, Always Get My Way by Thad Krasnesky; illustrated by David Parkins

In this cute and clever picture book, a precocious three-year-old tells all about the times she could have gotten in trouble… and didn’t. She spills orange juice on Dad, but her mom let’s her off because “After all… she’s only three.” She topples over her brothers model roller coaster and he takes the blame. When she “borrows” her sister’s skateboard to build onto her doll house and her sister has the nerve to take it back, the story is similar.

Events finally catch up to our narrator, however, when she loots the silver cabinet for buried reassure, floods the entire second floor, and dresses her brother’s pet iguana in a dolly’s bathing suit (among other charges). (more…)