This is the 40th anniversary of this title. I can not decide if it is meant to be a picture book, or an easy reader. It feel more like a board book. The story is simple, and so is the art, which is part of what makes it last 40 years.

Simple but fun. When you see a red dot in the distance, what is it? Is it a balloon? Is it a flower?

I’m not sure what is more adorable the story about a baby bear that doesn’t want to wait up, or the soft and fuzzy illustrations that wrap around you like a blanket.

This is an endearing story of a boy who helps with grandma with the bees on her property. He wonders why there is no king bee, and sets about becoming said king. The story is quite lovely, but a little slow for my personal taste. But having said that, we need more bee books, as we need to grow the population of bees.

I really like how this book was done. The girls use if/then in their everyday life. If the tomato is red, then pick it put it in the basket. Then they play the if/then game. It is very similar to Simon Says, but illustrates how Simon is the programmer and his followers are the computer. It even goes a little into debugging. I love that the author used girls, and for those who need more examples, the author is a POC.

I really wanted to like this book. Marvin the Moose becomes Awesome the hero after saving some friends. He becomes so popular that he does not have time for his friend Woody the beaver. Woody is tired of not getting any attention, so he does mischievous things to get people to notice him. Everything works out in the end, but there are no consequences. Woody gets a chance to rescue someone and is in the attention ring again. As a book to be read to children, the story skipping consequences and making everything right in the end is not a lesson we need to be teaching to children. They get enough of that already. If it wasn’t for that, i would have loved this book.

This story mixes English and Spanish in a wonderful way. They choose few key words to repeat frequently and use the illustrations to help fill in the rest. The story was simple but nice. I actually prefer the one page story at the end about who inspired the story.

This feels like a student assignment, and looks like one as well. It diverges to all sorts of topics, and doesn’t just stay on bullying. Plus, it is overly long and convoluted. Other books have done this better. And if you are going to use a Harlem Globetrotter example (or a similar one) then let them create the books.

A fun hide and seek book if you like mice. Plus good practice at counting to ten.

Have you seen the trend where you make food look like something else, or some other type of food? This book will teach you how to do that. Cupcakes that look like pulled pork sandwich anyone? The instructions are so each. They use various things covered in frosting for various elements. Not unusual to see are bread sticks, marshmallows and mini donuts. Such a creative book. I think I might just make some for Easter.