(4) PS Toddler stand-in Chloe Zoe, an elephant, gets scared while trick-or-treating, but Daddy makes her feel safe. Chloe Zoe is excited for Thanksgiving but has a meltdown when the pie she baked tastes bad. These banal holiday stories are overt with their lessons, but colorful, multi-patterned illustrations underscore the cheery tone. Review covers these titles: It's Halloween, Chloe Zoe! and It's Thanksgiving, Chloe Zoe!.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) PS Toddler stand-in Chloe Zoe, an elephant, gets scared while trick-or-treating, but Daddy makes her feel safe. Chloe Zoe is excited for Thanksgiving but has a meltdown when the pie she baked tastes bad. These banal holiday stories are overt with their lessons, but colorful, multi-patterned illustrations underscore the cheery tone. Review covers these titles: It's Halloween, Chloe Zoe! and It's Thanksgiving, Chloe Zoe!.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Elephant Chloe Zoe joins in the Easter egg hunt and the classroom Valentine's Day festivities with "extra-special friends" Mary Margaret (crocodile) and George (giraffe). Mary Margaret finds Chloe Zoe's sought-after golden egg, but she shares the treats inside. When Chloe Zoe loses her special valentine for George, everyone helps search for it. Colorful, multi-patterned illustrations convey the tame holiday stories' cheery tone. Review covers the following titles: It's Easter, Chloe Zoe! and It's Valentine's Day, Chloe Zoe!.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

(4) K-3 Elephant Chloe Zoe joins in the Easter egg hunt and the classroom Valentine's Day festivities with "extra-special friends" Mary Margaret (crocodile) and George (giraffe). Mary Margaret finds Chloe Zoe's sought-after golden egg, but she shares the treats inside. When Chloe Zoe loses her special valentine for George, everyone helps search for it. Colorful, multi-patterned illustrations convey the tame holiday stories' cheery tone. Review covers the following titles: It's Easter, Chloe Zoe! and It's Valentine's Day, Chloe Zoe!.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

(4) 4-6 Fourth-grader Ruthie is fascinated by her new babysitter, Alice, who helps her build a fairy house in the woods and tells her stories about the little creatures and the magical powers of Fairy Dust. But when Alice's penchant for lying and petty thievery leads Ruthie astray, Ruthie slowly comes to realize that Alice isn't so admirable after all. The novel conveys its message without preachiness, but use of stock characters reduces the impact.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(4) 4-6 Accompanied by her daughter, Jessica, Agatha Cat sets off around the world to find her sister, who has a penchant for travel and adventure. Their alternating diary entries describe their trip. The handsome book combines skillful gouache artwork, smaller pictures arranged in a scrapbook format, and a few letters that can be taken out of their envelopes. Unfortunately, this picture book, with its complicated, lengthy text, will have a limited audience.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(4) 4-6 The price of friendship with popular fifth-grader Jessica is a high one for Maddie, but she can't resist the lure of being in Jessica's inner circle. On direction from Jessica, Maddie begins a campaign to humiliate her best friend, Charlie. While the story is plodding, both Maddie and Charlie are sympathetic characters; the themes of peer pressure and the changing nature of friendships will be familiar to middle-grade readers.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute