The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Sterer, Gideon

Not Your Nest!

40 pp. | Dial | March, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7352-2827-6 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi. On the African plains, a small bird is ready for some well-deserved rest in her new nest, but "Oh!" A large hoopoe has taken over. "You can build another." She grudgingly does so on a different branch, and "Hey!" A fennec fox moves in... And so on. Sterer's to-the-point speech-bubble text is brought to life in the richly colored illustrations with nimble, energetic lines that adeptly convey the characters' reactions.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2019