(3) PS Illustrated by Kim Fernandes. To prepare for her birthday party, Little Mouse does a different task every day. On Monday she cleans house, on Tuesday she does laundry, and so on. The perky rhyming text highlights opposites: "Balloons are fat. Balloons are thin. / She takes some out and leaves some in." The detailed illustrations, made from modeling clay, have an eye-catching three-dimensional effect.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Kim Fernandes. In this poem from the Victorian classic A Child's Garden of Verses, a bored young boy imagines all kinds of pleasant, bug-sized adventures in the "Land of Play." Three-dimensional sculpted illustrations don't do much more than interpret the poem literally, but they're cheerful and bright, and Fernandes achieves an extraordinary level of detail in their modeling.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(4) PS Illustrated by Kim Fernandes. A mouse who doesn't want to take her nap cries so many tears that they float her bright yellow sneaker-bed right out to sea. There she frolics with the sea animals and birds of the air until sleep comes to her and her mother floats out in her own sugar-bowl boat to rescue her. Although the story is a bit contrived, the detailed pictures, molded from Fimo, a modeling material, are intriguing.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt