The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Briggs, Paul

Catch My Breath

40 pp. | Disney/Hyperion | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4847-2837-6 $16.99

(4) K-3 Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase series. Adages employing the word breath offer inspiration as a boy tries to catch his breath (peering into his dog's mouth for dog breath, wanting to buy babies' breath at a hospital nursery, etc.). It's a cute idea that's not quite substantive enough to fill out a picture book. The mainly black-and-white digital art appears with color accents, foregrounding the smiling balloon-like blobs of breath throughout.

Reviewer: Nell Beram