(3) K-3 Illustrated by Kanyika Kini. Old Pandurang is the grumpiest man in the village of Baddbaddpur. One day Pandurang inexplicably coughs up a feather; he tells his wife about it ("but don't tell anyone"), beginning the thread of increasingly wild and more exaggerated accounts passed among the gossipy Baddbaddpurians. Humorous text and lush illustrations reflecting the story's silliness create a unique and entertaining tall tale.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Christiane Pieper. A storm separates an elephant from his herd. Happily he's soon sporting with water buffalo. As in Tiger on a Tree, Ravishankar's rhymed text captures the ear with its engaging lilt. Noisy words (BOOM, BELLLOOOW) are printed large and integrated into digitally created illustrations that suggest woodcuts, their bold and craggy black and appropriately watery blue lending the story energy.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2008

(2) PS Illustrated by Pulak Biswas. In this Indian import with a spare, circular plot and deft use of language, a young tiger jumps into a stream and gets into a scrape: he confronts a goat, which scares him up a tree; then he's captured by a large group of men. After a crisp debate, the tiger is sent back across the stream to the shore where it all began. The two-color art is as bold and evocative as that of Glen Rounds.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2004