(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The Frazzle family members can't remember sunscreen, grocery lists, or pants. Aunt Rosemary comes to the rescue, but her many organizational efforts fail. The Frazzles eventually discover they can remember anything if they put it in a song. Gammell's frenetic illustrations perfectly express the Frazzle family's frazzled world. The happy ending leaves the whole family celebrating Rosemary's birthday--which they remembered.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(2) PS Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. A family throws a party in celebration of the "small spill of happiness" that pours out when the baby laughs for the first time. In an author's note Johnston credits inspiration for her mirth fest to a Navajo tradition called a First Laugh Ceremony. Gammell's free-spirited illustrations depict the multi-generational brood with idiosyncratic fashion sense and rollicking good humor.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. A Nobble, an elf-like creature, sets out in search of a friend. After much trouble, a small girl helps him find another Nobble, and the two wander off together. Williams's lengthy, elaborate prose meanders leisurely along with an adult sensibility, but Gammell's scratchy ink lines and textured watercolors bring the imaginary world and creatures to life for children.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In this takeoff of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," a teacher consumes more and more outlandish animals, class pets all. When faced with the climactic snack--a child--the green-faced, wild-haired teacher insists: "I would never do that!" Bowen's rhymes will have kids rolling in the aisles between their desks, and Gammell's spiky mixed-media illustrations are fittingly absurd.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The narrator recounts two of her elderly neighbor's stories. The first tells how he followed a star that fell from the sky. The second is about coming upon the end of a rainbow. Lyon's words are spare, never florid, for an elegantly powerful effect with silence built in. Gammell's art effectively intersperses grays with exuberant rainbow shades.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2008

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. A girl surfs the Internet for science fair project ideas and sends off for Professor Swami's Super Slime ("mutant yeast with just a piece of dragon DNA"). She ignores the instructions when the slime arrives, and it consumes her cat, sister, father, teacher, and schoolmates. The story is limited by its rhyming format, but the slime-spattered illustrations ooze quirky appeal.

Reviewer: Mark Adam

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Timothy decides not to change his socks for a month. He sticks with his decision even though the stench attracts the attention of the police and his parents make him sleep outside. The subject has kid appeal, but the story is told in clunky rhyme. The illustrations are the high point, with splashes of bright green to show how the smell travels.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. A former vaudeville performer, Grandpa can still set his feet to tapping, recall the favorite old songs, and chortle over ancient jokes before his three delighted grandchildren. Ackerman's quiet text is brought to warm and affectionate life by Gammell's superb artistry in this Caldecott medal winner and welcome reissue.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1988

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell & Stephen Gammell. A welcome reissue of a book originally published in 1975, this fictionalized account of Gettysburg is brought vividly to life by the action-filled illustrations.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell & Stephen Gammell. The text of this book, a lively rhyme enumerating the steps to making pancakes, is combined with equally lively, even chaotic pictures of three children making their own pancake breakfast. Gammell paints juice, syrup, and pancake batter splashing and dripping all over the pages, and the kids convey the joy of a make-your-own breakfast.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. A selfish little boy learns to think of others after his grandmother puts him into a giant "humble pie," and he is almost eaten by hungry peasants. Donnelly's original folk tale, with its overt moral and rich storytelling language, is illustrated with Gammell's characteristically loose pictures, with pie filling splattered over many of the pages.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Burgers and hot dogs get into brawls, an ice cream bar stranded at the beach turns to nothing more than a stick--such are the misadventures of various foods in Aylesworth's collection of poems, illustrated with Gammell's powerfully elemental multimedia art. As humorous verse, the poems sometimes fall flat, but some achieve witty turns through clever set-ups.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam