This is my favorite children's book of the year so far. I grabbed it from a neighboring branch to check out for an upcoming story-time theme and seriously giggled throughout the entire thing. The art is so freaking cute, there's a really good theme of friendship, and it highlights how important it is that we remember that, when someone else starts to like something we like, we don't need to become territorial - instead, we should be grateful to have a new friend to enjoy that thing with!

Most of all, though, the art... oh, man. Shawn keeps dressing up as a shark to begin with, and in each page where he's in his costume, his cat is in a fish costume. Later in the book, he switches to a leopard seal costume, so his cat... switches to a penguin costume. 😂 I'm still snickering.