(3) 1-3 Stepping Stone: Isadora Moon series. While on a field trip to the ballet, Isadora loses her magical stuffed bunny. Her search brings Isadora face-to-face with her idol, Tatiana Tutu--who happens to need an understudy for the show. Pink-accented grayscale illustrations play up the humorous contrast between half-fairy, half-vampire Isadora's wacky family and her human school friends, and they communicate Isadora's total comfort in being her one-of-a-kind self.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher

(3) 1-3 Stepping Stone: Isadora Moon series. Spunky half-vampire, half-fairy child Isadora finds neither fairy school nor vampire school quite right for her in School; and she befriends a mermaid over summer vacation in Camping. Warm moments with family and friends ground these first two fantastical adventures; plentiful pink-accented grayscale illustrations festooned with flowers, cutesy bats, stars, seashells, etc., detail Isadora's sparkly-spooky world. Review covers these Stepping Stone: Isadora Moon titles: Isadora Moon Goes Camping and Isadora Moon Goes to School.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher

(3) 1-3 Stepping Stone: Isadora Moon series. Spunky half-vampire, half-fairy child Isadora finds neither fairy school nor vampire school quite right for her in School; and she befriends a mermaid over summer vacation in Camping. Warm moments with family and friends ground these first two fantastical adventures; plentiful pink-accented grayscale illustrations festooned with flowers, cutesy bats, stars, seashells, etc., detail Isadora's sparkly-spooky world. Review covers these Stepping Stone: Isadora Moon titles: Isadora Moon Goes Camping and Isadora Moon Goes to School.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher

(4) K-3 Clementine is about the size of a mouse but lives with her human-sized family. Santa, unaware of how small she is, persists in bestowing inappropriately sized gifts on an annual basis. After many attempts, Santa gets the memo and she receives a dollhouse: "the perfect size for Clementine." The premise kind of falls apart, but the art makes cute use of the diminutive protagonist.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

(2) PS "My mom is a witch, and I am her special witch's cat." A mother-daughter team (I Am a Witch's Cat) heads to the costume shop, where the girl considers an array of options. Her final decision is a gentle twist on the story's premise. Muncaster's unique, endlessly perusable art features three-dimensional scenes combined with mixed-media flat illustrations and textured fabrics, photographed and digitized.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2015

(3) K-3 The narrator (a little girl in a cat costume) starts this story by saying, "My mom is a witch, and I am her special witch's cat." The witch's cat helps make potions, gets rides on a broomstick, and grows magical herbs. While the upbeat text says one thing, the enchanting pictures--3D mixed-media illustrations, photographed and digitized--show less fantastic, more realistic happenings.

Reviewer: Kari Allen