(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Tom Newsom. Bradley looks like a typical grade-school boy, but his father is a monster. In an underdeveloped diary format, Bradley relates their typical father-son experiences, such as shopping for school clothes and going trick-or-treating, and seems blithely unaware of other people's horrified reactions to his dad. This indirect humor is also evident in the illustrations, which show Dad's hairy paws and talon-like fingernails but never reveal his face.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(3) K-3 Bank Street Ready-to-Read series. For young readers, 'Cats' is a simple rhyming list of cats and cat characteristics. Newsom's illustrations aren't consistent but will appeal to young cat lovers. 'Frog', which is targeted at a slightly older early-reader audience, tells the story of Allie and the show-and-tell frog she thinks she's lost as it hops and hides throughout the playful illustrations.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.