(2) PS Illustrated by Chris Raschka. In Juster's paean to loving grandparents, the young narrator relates the comforting routines she shares with her grandparents when she visits. The familial love that is Juster's subtext finds overt expression, spectacularly, in Raschka's lush mixed-media illustrations set off perfectly by white space. A varied layout, balancing exterior and interior landscapes with smaller character vignettes, helps sustain the book's energy.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2005

(2) PS A small girl clambers up her tall daddy, who's depicted in a tweedy stone gray and is suitably immobile. In a vertical foldout, the red-haired moppet perches on Daddy's head while Daddy himself bursts into vivid color. A quintessentially simple idea, developed with delicious logic and Feiffer's witty limning of the girl's heroic postures.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2004

(2) PS At the end of a day's service as part of the "City Zoo" sign, Z heads home; on the way, he has twenty-five encounters. After passing an alien and crossing a bridge, Z snacks on cake and a doughnut. Each alphabetical item takes the shape of its initial letter, while the word appears in big, bold type. The outsize illustrations and powerful line conjure the entries with grace and humor.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003

(4) 1-3 Backseat roughhousing between two brothers produces extreme results when the older brother decides that his father's threat to leave him by the side of the road sounds pretty good. The fanciful "what if" scenario that unfolds as the boy settles there permanently, tunneling underground for shelter instead of returning home, is undercut by an odd pessimism, echoed in Feiffer's murky black-and-white cartoons.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

(3) K-3 In this witty manifestation of the grass-is-greener phenomenon, a boy imagines that life is absolutely perfect for the kid who lives across the street. Feiffer perceptively fleshes out his narrator's fantasy with details kids would find enviable, e.g., "He can eat on the expensive rug in front of the TV," and illustrates it all with his usual urbane, expressive ink and watercolor art.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

(1) K-3 Agee brings charm, empathy, and humor to this story of a magician whose boss gives him one last chance to "pull a rabbit out of your hat--or else." The deadpan delivery of the text expertly punches up the humor in the illustrations, and Milo's unlikely savior, an uncannily graceful bear, is a natural for situation comedy: popping out of a hat in a crowded restaurant, hiding in a mailbox, and so on.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001

(2) PS An independent little boy escapes an adult's irritating summonses by becoming a succession of vehicles and creatures and making ever-more-distant escapes. Eventually, hunger brings him home, but still in disguise, and "they better let me watch TV. Or I'll eat them." Bobby's monologue appears in an assertive type, the adult's exhortations in swashes of flowing script that counterpoint the exuberantly drawn illustrations.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2001