"A simpler alternative to Brian Patten and Nicola Bayley's The Big Snuggle-Up (2011) for the youngest of listeners and bed-sharers. (Picture book. 3-6)"
William's bed is a perfect haven from the winter snow; the forest denizens think so too.
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"Excellent layout, text, and illustrations make for a thoroughly satisfying story. (Picture book. 3-8)"
Pill bug Hank's day moves from ordinary to extraordinary when Amelia, a dark-skinned girl with huge eyes and black braids, gives him a ride on her pilot's helmet.
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"The idea is original and appealing, but the execution is less than inspiring. (Picture book. 4-7)"
"Rufus was watching a cloud shaped like a cushion turn into a cat when the idea first came to him. ‘I'm not going to have a lemonade stand this summer,' he said. ‘I'm going to have a story stand!' "
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"Joining the growing colony of self-referential meta-kid lit, this one-joke treatment has its moments. And the recipes work—for figs. (Picture book. 4-8)"
A purported editing error—substituting the letter "p" for "f" on a critical word throughout—transforms a tribute to figs into an appreciation of—pigs!
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"Quiet winter scenes / Santa ponders in writing, / sharing the season. (Picture books/poetry. 4-12)"
Santa himself is the purported author of this calm but bright collection of 25 haiku, one for each day of the December countdown to Christmas.
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