(4) K-3 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. New neighbor Astrid is tormenting the narrator, who finally confronts her when Astrid crashes her bike. But it's not a downtrodden-bullied-kid story: the book features extremely funny (if not-always-smooth) rhymes ("my heart sank a trifle / as there came crashing down / my Popsicle stick Eiffel"). The endearing human-seeming dog characters are rendered with a spare line and much compassion.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. "Creak!" says the bed as each of three children piles into Momma and Poppa's bed during a stormy night. When the family dog hops in too, the bed finally breaks. Simple acrylic gouache paintings and wavy black outlines add to a hilarious text that children will be able to recite after the first reading.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. For those too mature for gross-out books but still prone to titter at nudity, this offering is perfect: it covers the history of underwear not chronologically but thematically--"Protection," "Modesty," etc.--and supplies cartoony illustrations, bizarre-seeming archival advertisements, and fact balloons spotlighting the weirdness of it all ("Some early American settlers had themselves sewn into their underwear for the winter").

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. This book's goofy poems, jokes, riddles, and puns all contain math terms or actual math problems (the solutions are given beneath in red), from the poem about Mr. and Ms. Sweet-za doing fractions with their pizza to a "four-tune teller" who predicts, "You will drop a (100--96)k at lunch today (fork)." The poems and humorous cartoon illustrations are lively, but the tiny font resembling dense handwriting is daunting.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. Tweaking the trend of free-verse novels, this collection of poems is united by theme rather than plot as it explores the shifting ground of early adolescence as experienced by two best friends: the narrator ("Me") and Fernie. Most of the poems are casually deft and often funny in evoking the boys' misadventures. Small ink sketches illustrate most of the poems with tongue-in-cheek depictions of their furthest flights of imagery.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2002

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. "Party starts. Magician enters. / Hocus pocus! What a shock! / Stumbles through his incantation... / Turns Louise into a rock." As Maxwell the Magician miscasts one spell after another at Louise's birthday party, her brother offers a rollicking, play-by-play description of the ensuing pandemonium. The fast-paced, rhyming text is well matched by the illustrations, featuring wide-eyed characters with large, potato-shaped heads.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001