(2) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Krull asks her audience to imagine life in 1906 (the year of Farnsworth's birth): "No refrigerators...few phones...And there was no television." She continues in this engaging, easygoing tone as she describes Farnsworth's early life. The book ends with Philo, age twenty-two, reading an article about his "revolutionary light machine." Couch's muted mixed-media illustrations are illuminated with splashes of light. Reading list, websites. Bib.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. This spirited picture book biography tells about the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon. Stauffacher's colloquial tone and lively language are the ideal match for her subject. Couch employs zigzagging swirls of colors trailing in Althea's wake--an effective representation of her restlessness; the colors soften and begin to flow more coherently when Althea learns to control her energy and emotions. Timeline.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2007

(4) 4-6 Rabbit Ears Books series. Illustrated by Greg Couch. These varied tales with sophisticated vocabulary and wordy texts are reissued in library bindings. They are illustrated in a variety of styles, including the intense, hyperbolic pastels of Stormalong and the strong cut-paper silhouettes of Monkey People. No sources are given. There are twenty-one other spring 2005 books in this series. Review covers these Rabbit Ears: A Classic Tale titles: Finn McCoul, Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, The Monkey People, Peachboy, Stormalong.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(3) PS Illustrated by Greg Couch & Greg Couch. Behn's ode to the holiday ("Tonight is the night / when dead leaves fly / like witches on switches / across the sky") is accompanied by illustrations depicting three trick-or-treaters trekking through a nighttime landscape complete with glowing jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, and skeletons. Couch's atmospheric art adroitly conjures up the sometimes spooky, sometimes giddy spirit of Halloween.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) PS Illustrated by Greg Couch. Summer, pictured in the illustrations as a little girl, is so happy that her time has come that she plays instead of monitoring the change of seasons. Mother Earth and Father Time chide her, but she is having too much fun to be responsible. The earth suffers from her neglect until a remorseful Summer returns to her work. The rhyme of the text is forced, but the imaginative acrylic and colored-pencil illustrations are worthy of notice.

Reviewer: Kayla Cottingham

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Soft illustrations in a somewhat impressionistic style aptly illustrate this story of Mother Earth's awaking her three daughters March, April, and May to bring their season to life. In occasionally forced rhymes, the sisters squabble competitively, then realize that their mother loves them "ALL the best," after which "Spring's Sprung! A new day's begun."

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. In lilting language that uses stimulating action verbs and adjectives, the text describes the revelry of a group of children playing all day in the sun and water. Couch's watercolors use a wide spectrum of colors, even to depict the children themselves, so that the characters seem to be in unity with the natural surroundings. Readers will enjoy this high-spirited romp.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Winter is a young child who amuses himself by creating wintry weather while waiting for his busy parent, Father Time, to come and play. The eye-catching illustrations depict a luminous, ice-blue child and his star-studded father, with Time's clockwork gears spinning in the background. The rhyming text is uneven, but the father-son interactions are lively and well characterized.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(3) 1-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. In an unspecified war-torn city, a girl goes from taunting to admiring her grumpy elderly neighbor when he boldly begins playing his cello everyday in the bombed-out central square. Swirling watercolors, dominated by oranges and yellows, convey the permeating violence and mix of emotion in this bittersweet story about a man who inspires others with his refusal to be vanquished by fear.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Mother Earth's wild child is prolonging her bedtime. Finally, we learn that the child is Autumn, and that her slumber means the awakening of another wild child: Winter. The swirling text, which uses rhyme, alliteration, repetition, and made-up words ("Puckery, smuckery, crimsony cranberries"), rarely hits a false note. The lush, gauzy illustrations capture both autumn's colors and the haziness that precedes sleep.

Reviewer: Nell Beram