(4) 4-6 Goat Boy Chronicles series. Illustrated by Amerigo Pinelli. A pastor/storyteller retells some New Testament miracles from the perspective of eleven-year-old Gideon, a.k.a. "Goat Boy." Gideon and friends are witnesses as Jesus reveals his teachings, and they struggle to process both mildly humorous and serious events. The stilted language is quite contemporary, which may engage some readers to look at the biblical world differently. Occasional cartoony line drawings add little.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Clark. After three sweet but clueless rabbits force their cousin Grumblebunny to play outside, a wolf snatches up all four and throws them in his cooking pot. Grumble's attitude turns the broth sour, and he convinces the other three to act cranky, too. The game works well, and the wolf dumps the pot of grumblers out the door. The lurid cartoonlike illustrations may not please all, but the tongue-in-cheek text will appeal to bunnies both dour and dumb.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Raglin. Tired of Lamburgers and Sloppy Does for dinner, Little Wolf stalls off another unappetizing meal by pretending he's seen a boy in the woods, thereby sending his parents on a frantic search-and-capture mission. After falling for the same trick twice, they resolve to ignore Little Wolf the next time he cries "Boy." The pen-and-ink illustrations emphasize comic exaggeration in this upside-down version of the familiar fable.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002