It's much enhanced by Yalowitz's mellow color- pencil illustrations. Told with warmth and a light touch, the story easily transcends its predictability. Hatch into a funk but his devoted new friends rally round to bring him back into their cheerful society. Then the postman arrives with the news that the candy was delivered to the wrong address, putting poor Mr. He's soon baking brownies, hosting a neighborhood picnic, and reading to the local kids. Hatch-who works in a shoelace factory and eats a cheese and mustard sandwich for lunch every day with, just occasionally, a prune-is jarred from his reserve by receiving a huge Valentine box of candy with a card that says only, ``Somebody loves you.'' Amazed, he samples it, shares it at work and, buoyed by his friendly reception, sympathetically helps several people out on the way home (e.g., he watches the newspaper stall so that its proprietor can take his cold to the doctor).
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