Filled with carefully-chosen words--a good thing since there are so few of them, but oh, how perfectly those words mimic the sounds of crunching through the snow ["scrinch scrunch scrinch scrunch scrinch scrunch" (unpaged)]--this delightful picture book follows the adventures of several animals w...
Red Sled is a book full of detailed pictures and not a lot of words. One night a curious bear finds a red sled sitting across a log cabin. He decides to borrow the sled. He shows his first friend, the rabbit, and they decide to go flying down the hill on the red sled. His moose friend then decide...
Lita Judge creates adorable illustrations. Her happy penguin and all his bird friends are just too cute. Even though everyone tells Penguin he cannot fly, he is just determined. He knows he has the soul of an eagle. If only had the body of an eagle, as well. There are lots of humorous moment...
Told mostly through pictures, this book is about a little girl who hangs a red hat on the line to dry. Animals joyously play with the hat until it is nothing but unraveled string. That's when the animals return the hat. But never fear, in a "tink-a-tink tink" the little girl has knitted the hat b...
Communication is a nice slice through a wide, wide topic. This was a good choice.I almost think Judge could have focused on one bird and gone for depth?--maybe she'll do a follow-up. I noticed Judge did an interesting suspense thing early in the book, where she gave a teaser on one spread and the...
The author decides to answer the question by looking at a variety of dinosaurs and comparing them to known animals to give kids an idea of how big some dinosaurs really were. This is written kind of like a story and is easy to read...not to factual. It could be a really good non-fiction book if r...