The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Carter, Anne

Dinner Time

12 pp. | Candlewick | July, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-3854-2 $6.99
New ed. (1981)

(3) PS Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski. Paper engineering by Marcin Stajewski and James Roger Diaz. This edition of Carter's classic delivers hungry animals in a pop-up format. Beginning with a vulture telling a frog, "I’m going to eat you for my dinner," and traveling up the food chain, the repetitive text is meant to be read aloud. The mouths of Pieńkowski's mixed-media creatures protrude with each page turn; the shark's final triumph never gets old.

Reviewer: Chelsey Philpot