(2) K-3 Creepy Tales! series. Illustrated by Peter Brown. Reynolds and Brown (Creepy Carrots!; Creepy Pair of Underwear!, rev. 9/17) are back to haunt another innocuous item: your crayons! Jasper Rabbit could use some help with his schoolwork, and he gets it from a purple crayon with an expressively drawn cartoon face. That at-first-friendly visage eventually shows its sinister true colors as the crayon goes from helpful (magically improving Jasper's spelling) to downright possessive (scrawling "YOU NEED ME" on a mirror). Purple pops as the only color besides the noirish black-and-white of the illustrations (other than cameos by green underwear and orange carrots). Harold and the Purple Crayon meets Faust, and the imaginative, humorously written result is so ridiculous that it's hard to stay really scared.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2022

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Peter Brown. In this companion to Creepy Carrots, young Jasper Rabbit begs his mom to buy a pair of green glow-in-the-dark underwear with a Frankenstein's-monster face. But once he's alone in bed in the dark, Jasper's fears take flight. The humorous text captures Jasper's not-quite-a-big-kid dilemma. Brown's noirish, digitally colored and -composited pencil illustrations--accented with Day-Glo green--heighten both the silliness and the spookiness in equal measure.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2017

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Peter Brown. Is Jasper Rabbit losing his mind? Or are the carrots from Crackenhopper Field--where he gorges daily--really "coming for him!"? No one else sees them, but Jasper knows they're there; he can hear "the soft...sinister...tunktunktunk of carrots creeping." Brown's dynamic illustrations, all in gray-scale except for the orange sentient carrots, take full advantage of the goofy story's mock horror.

Reviewer: Sian Gaetano

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Peter Brown. A monkey tries to convince skeptical readers of its ESP ability ("Hey, kid. Guess what? I can read minds"). The story's punch line isn't quite as funny as all that precedes it, but the raucous setup will have readers laughing. Mixed-media illustrations starring the monkey and a juggling, roller-skating marsupial abet the silly chain-yanking.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Peter Brown. The wooden people of Ashenpeake find a leader in determined young Snowbone, whose passionate crusade, first for vengeance, then to free her race from slavery, propels her across land, sky, and sea. The enthralling story rarely fumbles (perhaps losing steam at the ambiguous ending); the backbone of the episodic adventures is the warmly drawn, vivacious characters and their maturing relationships.

Reviewer: Amy Lee Bennett