(2) PS Illustrated by Laura Dronzek. Griffith spins a lilting text from an inviting simile: "moonlight slides like butter..." The protagonist is a sleepy rabbit who, by story's end, emerges from his burrow and "dances in the field / butter on his head!" Dronzek's nocturnal scenes, in deeply saturated acrylics, are dramatized by the play of that buttery light among the shadows, drawing readers into the story's quiet mystery.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

(3) 1-3 Illustrated by James Stevenson. Grandaddy's Place (1987), Grandaddy and Janetta (1993), and Grandaddy and Janetta Together (1995) are all included in this new, smaller volume. The full-color art has been converted to black and white, many of the smaller illustrations are missing, and the full-page art has been shrunk. The stories are unchanged, however, and while this edition is not as effective as the originals, it still contains some outstanding writing. Reviews 11/87, 5/93, 5/95.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(2) 4-6 Nickel's modest hopes for "a family that looked out for him" are realized after his aunt Starla and her husband, Joe, take him in. When a bullying classmate and his sidekicks harass Nickel, the spirit of Joe's dead horse intervenes, entering the remains of an old bicycle. Griffin builds the ghostly scenario with skill in this ambitious novel with an unusually appealing protagonist.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 1999

(3) K-3 Brothers Ryan and Nathan share a bedroom in which eight-year-old Ryan keeps a terrarium filled with plastic dinosaurs. They also share exciting and terrifying adventures when the dinos somehow come to life. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, this slim, fast-paced book will appeal especially to reluctant readers.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.