I love the Simone books. They are an easy graphic novel with small vignettes. Simon is the only human in the monster world. And sometimes the meaning of things is not the same in the two realms. I love that in many of the strips the characters are reading. It helps show that books are fun. And this book is lots of fun.

For those that don’t know. Boxing champ George Foreman names all his children George. This book takes a fun look at a day of celebration for Big George, while all the other Georges run around getting things done. It’s a laugh.

A lovely rhyming story about the parts of the body and what they can do.

I have always loved David Catrow’s illustrations, and I am really glad someone lent him a pen to write his own story. Max is not a dog, rather a dinosaur hunter. His dinosaur is amazing, and so is Catrow’s first complete easy reader book.

First Off, I love all the little critter books. They are just so much fun. I am really glad they made this one a lift the flap book. That and the mouse that gives commentary make this version stand above many others.

First off I don’t like the cover in the digital galley. If this is a sold color cover with a cut out to see the print underneath that is a different story but as it is currently laid out it is bland. Let the artwork speak instead of the shape. The leaf shape has NOTHING to do with this story. And the illustrations are really nice. The story is a look at grandpa and how well he listens. Plus there are some activity pages in the back. Change the cover and this would be a great book (4 stars with a different cover).

This was a really sweet book. A little girl is telling the reader why her mom is perfect. She is not the kind of mom who is all made up and you can't touch. She’s a silly mom. She can play dress up, likes walking in the rain, and runs around like crazy when it’s time to go to work and school. The illustrations are nice and fit the story well. Use them as the cover instead of the illustration inside a giant Pink present. The shape has no real synchronization with the story and makes it hard to pick up and read.

Mother is a uniformed police officer. She works on a team and does various things. It’s a nice introduction. Personally I did not like that the first thing a lady cop was doing is directing traffic, but there were other examples that I thought were better. At first I didn’t like the illustrations, but they grew on my as I turned the pages. They are not typical children’s book illustrations. They have more depth and scope. And this quality… Over all a nice book that show a woman can be a police officer.

I want a copy of this book for myself. It contains beautiful manga style illustrations for us to color. The artwork is amazing. I would have liked to seen more full page illustrations. Most of the pages are head shots, and there are full body shots, but they are there with a repetitive pattern. A full scene might have had the underwater village in the background or some such thing.

This was really a joy. Pandora is not like the other penguins. She dares to be be different. They waddle, she skates. They fish, she goes on an adventure. When she falls into the ice and finds a box, everyone else is too scared to open it. But Pandora was brave, and brought the light. A wonderful story about the Northern Lights (even though they don’t shine in the South).