The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Scher, Paula

The Brownstone

32 pp. | Princeton Architectural Press | January, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61689-428-3 $17.95
Reissue (1973, Knopf)

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stan Mack. The landlord of a six-unit brownstone repeatedly asks his tenants to switch apartments in order to satisfy other tenants' complaints about their neighbors; the Mice, for example, are afraid to live across from Miss Cat. Ambitious readers of this entertaining tale have a chance to solve the landlord's problem before he does. Comical cut-away illustrations show the residents moving from apartment to apartment.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert