Category Archives: Picture Books about Animals

Max the Flying Sausage Dog: Book Three A Scary Tail by John O’Driscoll and Richard Kelley and Illustrated by Arthur Robins

December 6, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of Words in the Works] Max the Flying Sausage Dog is one of our absolute favorite book series. The subject, the humor, the prose, and illustrations are so perfectly and expertly done and so completely inline with our family’s sense of humor that we’re all enamored with books one, two, and now three. The hardest my eldest son has ever laughed was when we read the first book of Max the Flying Sausage Dog. He […]

Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture books about Bullies, Picture Books about Dogs, Picture Books about Flying Dogs, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Overcoming Obstacles, Picture Books about Pets, Picture Books about Resolving Conflict, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Arthur Robins, Book Review, Bullies, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Dogs, Flying Dogs, Funny picture books, Humor, John O'Driscoll, kidlit, Max the Flying Sausage Dog, Nanobots, Picture Book, Picture Books, Picture books about Dogs, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, Richard Kelley

The Mouse that Cancelled Christmas by Madeleine Cook and Illustrated by Samara Hardy

November 30, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of Oxford University Press] The Mouse that Cancelled Christmas is a happy, hilarious, and light-hearted Christmas tale about Mouse, a self-designated safety inspector, who runs around the forest pointing out every potential hazard to his forest mates. He gets so worked up about every single possible danger that he becomes overwhelmed and decides that Christmas is just too dangerous and simply must be cancelled! Well, that is until he finds out that his friends have […]

Giveaway! Hotel Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

October 28, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Thank you to Disney for providing the book for review and a prize pack for the giveaway. Bruce. Man, what a mom. He’s supposed to be hibernating, but instead we find that he’s in Miami with his four adopted geese kids. He might not be happy about it, but he’s doing it like a champ. So when they all come home, back to their super-cozy, super-awesome cave and find that it has been commandeered and turned into a hotel by three […]

Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Adoption, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Bears, Picture Books about Behavior, Picture Books about Resolving Conflict, Picture Books with Great Characters, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Bears, Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, giveaway, Hotel Bruce, Humor, Humorous Children's Books, kidlit, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, Ryan T. Higgins

One North Star by Phyllis Root and Illustrated by Beckie Prange and Betsy Bowen

October 14, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

I received a review copy from the publisher. No other compensation was received. One North Star is a striking and awe-inspiring picture book that poetically counts the wonders of Minnesota’s natural beauty and wildlife. It really is an incredible picture book. On first glance, you’ll notice that the illustrations are gorgeous. Then you’ll see that it appears to be a fairly standard counting book and you begin with one moose and take it from there. It isn’t until you sit […]

Categories: Children's Books, Counting Picture Books, Fine Art Picture Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Nature, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Counting, Counting Picture Books, kidlit, Minnesota, Nature, One North Star, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books

Please Be Nice to Sharks by Matt Weiss with Photos by Matt Weiss & Daniel Botelho

July 19, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

I received a review copy from the publisher. No other compensation was received. When I was a child, sharks were bad, scary monsters that we should fear. We watched Jaws I, II, and III and, in general, it seemed that their deaths were not something for us to mourn. I’ve grown up and have learned that no, they’re not the scary monsters the movies (or well-meaning, but understandably overprotective parents) have portrayed them as. But it wasn’t until I sat […]

Categories: Children's Books, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Sharks • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Daniel Botelho, Highly Recommended Books, kidlit, Matt Weiss, Picture Book, Picture Books, Please Be Nice to Sharks, Read Aloud, Recommended Picture Books

Daredevil Duck by Charlie Alder

May 12, 2015 by The Picture Book Review

[I received a review copy from the publisher. No other compensation was received.] Daredevil Duck desperately wants to be brave, but holy moley can it be hard! Some things are too dark, too fluttery, too wet, and too high — and those things can really make it hard for a little duck to be brave. To make things harder, there is the loud, obnoxious gang waiting on the sidelines to taunt and tease him — and dub him “Scaredy Duck”. […]

Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Bravery, Picture Books about Ducks, Picture Books about Friendship, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Book Review, Charlie Alder, Children's Books, Daredevil Duck, Ducks, Highly Recommended Picture Books, kidlit, Picture Books

Beastly Verse by JooHee Yoon

May 5, 2015 by The Picture Book Review

[I received a review copy of this book from the publisher. No other compensation was received.] Beastly Verse is a mischievously beautiful work of art. This book of 16 poems is simultaneously gorgeous, thrilling, and very funny. It presents a wide range of delightful poetry from the very familiar “The Tiger” by William Blake and “The Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll to poems that I’m thrilled to be introduced to such as “Eletelephony” by Laura E. Richards and “The Friendly Hen” by […]

Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Poetry Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Beastly Verse, Book Review, Children's Books, Highly Recommended Picture Books, Joohee Yoon, kidlit, Picture Books, Poetry

Danny by Yann & Gwendal Le Bec

March 27, 2015 by The Picture Book Review

[I received a review copy of this book from the publisher. No other compensation was received.] If you’re into smart, subversive, and satirical humor — this is the book for you! While getting his teeth cleaned by two gossipy, kibitzing cleaner fish, Danny is aghast that they think he has a lisp! Instead of saying to himself, “They’re random fish, what the fiddle diddle do they know?” and moving on with his life, he runs to his friend Steve the snake. […]

Categories: Cautionary Tales, Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Dentists, Picture Books about Hippopotamuses, Recommended Picture Books, Suggested Piece for Forensics Storytelling • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Danny, Dentistry, Gwendal Le Bec, Highly Recommended Picture Books, kidlit, Picture Books, Yann Le Bec

Dogs Rule, Nonchalantly by Mark Ulriksen

February 1, 2015 by The Picture Book Review

[I received a review copy of this book from the publisher. No other compensation was received.] Dogs Rule, Nonchalantly is an easy book to love. Over the course of 140 pages and 67 paintings of dogs, Mark Ulriksen, author and illustrator, tells us about the dogs in his life and dogs in general. It’s beautiful, it makes you laugh, and it makes you take a moment to be grateful for all of the wonderful dogs in the world that love […]

Categories: Fine Art Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Dogs, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Art, Book Review, Children's Books, Dogs, Dogs Rule Nonchalantly, Highly Recommended Picture Books, kidlit, Mark Ulriksen, Picture Books, Picture books about Dogs

← Older posts