The Whose-its and Whats-its is an imaginative children's picture book which teaches children to value differences. Colorful, full-page illustrations and rhymes will delight children ages 3 through 10. The Whose-its wore bright stripes and polka-dot togs, And shirts with fat buttons, and zippers, and frogs, They mismatched their layers because that was fun-- If one shirt was plenty, they wore more than one. They also spent all day playing. The Whats-its were serious and lived by a creed, A Big Book of Rules they all learned to read. They never made waste and worked all the time-- No music, no dancing, no singing, no rhyme. No funny fashions, no hats, and no shoes-- They all looked the same with nothing to lose. No buttons on shirts, they just wore gray smocks And very long, wrinkled, all same size socks. The Whose-its and Whats-its live in the same valley, but they DON'T get along . . . until Corlin, the youngest and smallest Whats-it gets into trouble for following the rules. It takes the whole community of Whose-its and Whats-its to save him, teaching both groups that they can learn a lot from each other.
