(2) PS Fox + Chick series. Following their wacky antics in the previous two volumes (The Party and Other Stories, rev. 7/18; The Quiet Boat Ride and Other Stories, rev. 7/19), this charmingly mismatched pair returns for three more stories. The first begins after bedtime. Chick shows up uninvited for a sleepover, waking Fox and eventually taking over the entire bed, leaving Fox tired and awake on the floor. Next, Chick finds a lost hammer and decides to put a nail in a brick wall, but the hammer goes missing again before the deed is done. Fox suggests an alternative that gets the nail in the wall--a perfect place to hang a newly painted picture of a missing hammer. (Observant readers will know where to find the hammer, but Chick settles for admiring the painting of it.) The final story involves a surprise party for Chick's birthday, one that Chick demands Fox throw. Clever Fox manages to make it a surprise in spite of interfering Chick, but in the end the real surprise is for Fox. (It is not Chick's birthday at all.) The offbeat tales told through comic-panel art and colorful settings, combined with the excitable, bossy Chick and the easygoing, sensible Fox, create another installment in this comics-style picture-book series that works for readers and listeners alike. That brick wall from the second story can be found on the endpapers--bare at the front but covered with pictures of presumably missing objects at the back--tying together the latest exploits of these two friends beautifully.

Reviewer: Julie Roach | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2021

(1) K-3 Fox + Chick series. Ruzzier presents three more brief comics-format adventures about odd-couple friends Fox and Chick (from The Party and Other Stories). Pastel-hued pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations are easy to follow from panel to panel and spread to spread, with tantalizingly off-kilter details and fanciful supporting characters. The protagonists seem to have mellowed somewhat from the previous book, with fewer examples of sniping and more of sharing.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019

(1) K-3 Fox + Chick series. Ruzzier delivers three stories about Fox and Chick in a volume with a picture book's trim size but plenty of graphic-novel elements (simply structured panels, dialogue balloons, sound effects) that are well suited to reading newcomers. Finely etched and textured pen, ink, and watercolor vignettes employ a subdued palette. This new entertaining odd-couple friendship could make a Frog and Toad–like impression on the picture-book and easy-reader worlds.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2018