(4) K-3 "The Tightrope," "The Diary," and "The Icky Story" are reproduced in easy reader format. While the tales are as delightful as ever and beginning readers will enjoy them, the compact format isn't as effective as the picture-book-size original.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(4) K-3 The five short stories originally published in George and Martha: Rise and Shine (1976) are split into two easy readers. Shine includes "The Fibber," "The Experiment," and "The Picnic"; Time features "The Scary Movie!" and "The Secret Club." While the stories are as delightful as ever, this format is inferior to the original (e.g., the smaller illustrations are less effective at conveying the humor). Review covers these titles: George and Martha: One More Time and George and Martha: Rise and Shine.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 The five short stories originally published in George and Martha: Rise and Shine (1976) are split into two easy readers. Shine includes "The Fibber," "The Experiment," and "The Picnic"; Time features "The Scary Movie!" and "The Secret Club." While the stories are as delightful as ever, this format is inferior to the original (e.g., the smaller illustrations are less effective at conveying the humor). Review covers these titles: George and Martha: One More Time and George and Martha: Rise and Shine.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 Houghton has augmented its compendium of George and Martha stories with reminiscences by Marshall's friends and colleagues, including Susan Meddaugh, Jon Scieszka, and Anita Silvey.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton

(4) K-3 These four easy readers are reformatted versions of George and Martha (1972) and George and Martha Round and Round (1988). Each volume includes two or three tales with the illustrations reproduced in a smaller size. While the stories are as delightful as ever and beginning readers will enjoy them, the new format isn't as effective as the original. Review covers these titles: George and Martha, George and Martha: Round and Round, George and Martha: The Best of Friends, and George and Martha: Two Great Friends.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 These four easy readers are reformatted versions of George and Martha (1972) and George and Martha Round and Round (1988). Each volume includes two or three tales with the illustrations reproduced in a smaller size. While the stories are as delightful as ever and beginning readers will enjoy them, the new format isn't as effective as the original. Review covers these titles: George and Martha, George and Martha: Round and Round, George and Martha: The Best of Friends, and George and Martha: Two Great Friends.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 These four easy readers are reformatted versions of George and Martha (1972) and George and Martha Round and Round (1988). Each volume includes two or three tales with the illustrations reproduced in a smaller size. While the stories are as delightful as ever and beginning readers will enjoy them, the new format isn't as effective as the original. Review covers these titles: George and Martha, George and Martha: Round and Round, George and Martha: The Best of Friends, and George and Martha: Two Great Friends.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 These four easy readers are reformatted versions of George and Martha (1972) and George and Martha Round and Round (1988). Each volume includes two or three tales with the illustrations reproduced in a smaller size. While the stories are as delightful as ever and beginning readers will enjoy them, the new format isn't as effective as the original. Review covers these titles: George and Martha, George and Martha: Round and Round, George and Martha: The Best of Friends, and George and Martha: Two Great Friends.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 This compilation of amusing poems, nursery rhymes, and limericks includes such nonsense as "Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear," "A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track," plus a handful of Marshall's own fine limericks. Marshall's zany interpretations of the familiar rhymes will keep kids laughing.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

(2) PS In this welcome reissue, friends Harriet and Winnie, "as different as two chickens could be," co-exist peacefully until the flighty Winnie is lured away by a smooth-talking fox and Harriet has to mount a rescue operation. The action accelerates to a true cliffhanger ending, and the expressions on the face of the clueless Winnie are priceless.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz

(3) K-3 This admirable reissue features an incessantly worried gentleman pig. His decision to throw his first party to celebrate National Snout Day throws him into a frenzy of fussing: "What if my refreshments aren't tasty enough?" "What if my dancing isn't up to snuff?" Even after the party is a wild success, Portly can't help fretting, "What if next year's party isn't so good as this year's? Oh dear, oh dear."

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz

(3) K-3 Willis the crocodile needs sunglasses, but he doesn't have the twenty-nine cents to buy them. Luckily, Bird, Snake, and Lobster come along, and after attempting to make the money at odd jobs, they devise to earn it by throwing a talent show. Marshall's absurd sense of humor is evident, and his deceptively simple drawings are rife with priceless expressions and hilarious details.

Reviewer: Erica L. Stahler

(3) K-3 Lonely moose Mona welcomes an unlikely guest, snail Maurice, into her home. Their friendship flourishes, but Maurice leaves suddenly one day, only to return--slowly--with his large family. Marshall's trademarks are here: unusual juxtapositions (for example, a snail who loves French toast), neon-bright colors for cartoon art cropped at unexpected places, a slight plot, and a strong emphasis on friendship.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) K-3 These four small books detail with goofy good humor the not-so-large travails of a quartet of put-upon animals. Marshall's bright, cartoonlike illustrations capture the anguish of feeling left out or different, and each story has a warmly satisfying ending.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(3) K-3 These four small books detail with goofy good humor the not-so-large travails of a quartet of put-upon animals. Marshall's bright, cartoonlike illustrations capture the anguish of feeling left out or different, and each story has a warmly satisfying ending.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(3) K-3 These four small books detail with goofy good humor the not-so-large travails of a quartet of put-upon animals. Marshall's bright, cartoonlike illustrations capture the anguish of feeling left out or different, and each story has a warmly satisfying ending.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz

(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. A philistine wolf's appetite for pigs is transformed into an appetite for art in this posthumously published burlesque. The story is perfectly coherent, but wordy, with only a few of the distinctive touches one would expect from a James Marshall text. Sendak's illustrations are cluttered and oddly lacking in depth, making it difficult at times to decipher the content of the picture.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 1999