Can Harriet manage her way back to her dad's (and the party hats) in time for her special day GenresPicture BooksLGBTChildrensAnimalsAdventureStorytimeFiction. The narrator's offhand, unruffled voice ("So Harriet called in a favor from some friends she knew") makes Harriet's intrepid adventure a delightful readaloud. She may look like a penguin, but she’s not so sure she belongs in the arctic. Author-illustrator Jessie Sima doesn't call particular attention to the fact that Harriet has two dads or that her family and friend group are multiracial it's simply her accepted, everyday reality. Harriet is a resourceful city child, the kind of girl who has no problem negotiating with an orca (she trades her red bow tie for a lift). Harriet Gets Carried Away 's inclusive values are all the more powerful because they're implicit. Readers who fear that Harriet will be marooned or miss her birthday party will relax as an orca and a flock of pigeons help bring her back to the store, and the party goes off without a hitch. Before she knows it, Harriet is aloft with them in their hot-air balloon, headed back to their polar home. Dressed as a penguin, Harriet who has dark skin, curly hair, and two fathers heads to the grocery store with her dads before her birthday party, where she discovers a group of actual penguins replenishing their supply of bagged ice. Dress-up-loving Harriet wears costumes everywhere in one early scene, Sima (Not Quite Narwhal) shows her in the dentist's chair, opening her mouth wide while inside an equally toothy dinosaur outfit.
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