Review by Horn Book Review
@ la Richard Scarry, each large double-page spread in this entertaining book shows ten diminutive animals going about their daily activities, from morning to night. Readers are invited to search each illustration for nine labeled objects displayed in a row across the bottom of the page. Picture-puzzle fans can enjoy poring over the detailed art and answering the questions in the chatty text. (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Pastel collage scenes of small animals at work and play offer the Oshkosh set opportunities aplenty to interpret and respond to visual busyness. The activities are captioned by a mix of descriptive comments and leading questions ("They can't wait to eat their breakfast. Have you noticed that they all like to eat different things?") and supplemented by strips of labeled details to spot. The story, such it is, describes a commune of 10 anthropomorphized animals who rise together and then go on to eat, play, visit a grocery store and a farm, and at last get ready for bed. Billet dresses her stylized, bright-eyed puppy, sheep, koala and other nursery schooler stand-ins in human clothing, places them against pale, flattened natural or urban backdrops, and surrounds them with easily identifiable tools, toys, foodstuffs, wildlife and other figures. Nine selected items parade across each spread's bottom with a "Can you see?" challenge and one-word (mostly) identifiers. Sugary, but just the ticket for tykes not yet up to more teeming I Spystyle panoramas. (Picture book. 2-4)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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