(3) K-3 Illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. Tom loves playing in the snow with his new friend, a pale boy from the mountains, but spring can't come until the boy--Winter's Child--leaves to sleep. With food and firewood running low, Tom's elderly Nana is threatened. The spare story manages to avoid preciousness, but the magically glittering winter scenes in the intricate, often surreal digital artwork are the real draw.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. A playwright retells nine of the legendary hero's more familiar adventures, from Robin's first becoming an outlaw to a "last battle." Pitching to middle-grade readers, Calcutt writes in brief declarative sentences and lively dialogue lightened with a few modern colloquialisms. Baker-Smith's mixed-media, digitally blended illustrations feature craggily heroic, dramatically shadowed figures; delicate, misty landscapes and woodland creatures in occasional spot art add variety.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. Credulous Leon and his skeptical siblings take in a magic show. Leon volunteers to step into the magician's box and there he discovers another world. The story becomes increasingly subordinate to the dark, dramatic digital-montage art. The layouts feature a couple of die-cuts, a fold-out page, and an overwhelming variety of fonts.

Reviewer: Nell Beram