Not Yet, Yvette

by Helen Ketteman, Irene Trivas (Illustrator)

The minute Mom leaves, Yvette asks, "Is it time yet, Dad?" Dad answers, "Not yet, Yvette." Then Yvette and her dad get busy because there's a lot to do before Mom comes home, like clean the house and bake a birthday cake.

Genres: Fiction, Picture Books

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

author and mother of two grown sons. Texas, where she lived for 9 years, is one of her favorite places and several of her books are set there. She, her husband, and their two cats currently live in Sanibel Island, Florida--where plenty of armadillos live, too.

Reviews

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Not Yet, Yvette
2. The book teaches about patience.
3. This is a great book for teaching children about patience. Yvette was SO excited to surprise her mom for her birthday. Yvette had to go through a series of tasks before surprising her mom. It's a good book to read to children when they are excited for an event that is coming up and I can use this book in my classroom and remind the children how Yvette had to wait through all of her tasks until she could finally surprise her mom.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a story about a young girl who is preparing to surprise her mother for her birthday. Pre-primary and primary children could relate to all the work Yvette and her dad put in to planning the perfect surprise. They clean the house, get a present, bake a cake, wrap the present, decorate the house, and then wait anxiously for her mother. Some of the pages of the book are writing only, but surrounded by something that is being described on that page. On the first page it is the feathers that are in the duster that Yvette uses to dust the house, later it is the icing that they put on the cake or streamers that they use to decorate the dining room. I also love the idea that it is Dad who is helping with the surprise. You see him cleaning, baking, shopping. Things that real dads do, but are too often under-represented in books for children.

[Crystal Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Is it time yet, Dad?" Young children are always asking when will it be time to eat or leave somewhere. I'm sure most children will be able to connect to Yvette. This is a great story to teach children about giving gifts to others, especially their parents.

[Azriana Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a story about a young girl planning a surprise for her mom. This story can be used for children to share a time when they got a surprise or surprised someone.

[Shonnece Hines]

1) not yet, yvette
2) teaches young children patience
3) have the kids talk about a time where they got to surprise somebody or get to pick the present, or help bake the cake and how excited they were about it

[Rachel]

First and foremost, I picked out this book because Yvette is my mother's name and judging by the title I thought it had to do with patience, which is a little ironic because my mother has a lot of patience. I love how colorful this book is. I think that it teaches children the importance of waiting and how much more special the thing you are waiting for is after you use patience and wait until the right time. I would probably read the book to the children and have them come up with things that they have had to be patient for in the past. I would then have them draw something they are currently waiting for.