(4) K-3 Illustrated by Evon Zerbetz. Starring a red snapper and a wolf eel, this Red Riding Hood take-off reverses the traditional moral when Red, Wolf Eel, and Grandma sit down together for a meal: "Both ignorance and loathing / Can make us fear potential friends / Disguised in wolf-eel clothing." Like the handsome linoleum block prints, the rhyme has plenty of humorous touches, but the surprise ending doesn't quite make sense, even for a parody.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Evon Zerbetz. When a family goes blueberry picking, "somewhere between the top of Ptarmigan Mountain and the bottom," Baby loses his shoe. A vole, a fox, and a bear all in turn find and lose the red Ked. During the following summer's blueberry picking, guess what Baby (now toddler) finds again? Appealing linocuts on delicate leaf impression backgrounds convey the animals and landscape of the northwest woods.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey