Bibliographic Citation: Slonim, David. He Came with the Couch. Chronicle Books, 2005. 36 pages. ISBN: 978-0811844307.
Format: Hardcover
Awards: Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (2009)
Age Group: Ages 3-4 Years
Annotation: A family finally finds a couch that’s right for them, but it comes with an unexpected addition.
Reflection: The book begins with a picture of the family dog chewing up the couch. The text on the next page states “Our family needed a new couch,” and shows the couch set on fire and flung out the window while a child watches from up in the tree. The family goes shopping for a couch and tries out several couches, but could not find one they liked. By nighttime they came across a rummage sale and got a new couch. The couch is loaded into the pickup truck and they head home, but someone is sitting on the couch. When the daughter asks who is back there, the dad says he doesn’t know but “He came with the couch.” The next day, the little girl tries to interact with the couch boy but he doesn’t respond. The parents try to extract him from the couch and persuade him to leave but he didn’t move so they called in a doctor. The doctor diagnoses him with “upholsterosis” and tells the family that he needs to get out more. The family takes a road trip with the couch in tow to the Grand Canyon, the beach, and Washington, D.C. but he stayed on the couch. The parents give up and decide to accept the couch boy, until one day they are grateful when saves the little girl by throwing the couch out the window to break her fall from the tree. The last few pages of the book show the family dog chewing up a chair and the family bringing home a chair girl from the rummage sale. The book teaches acceptance and the ink and watercolor cartoon drawings set the tone of the book.
Categorization Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Sofas. Furniture, Friendship,
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