The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Hoberman, Mary Ann

The Looking Book: A Hide-and-Seek Counting Story

32 pp. | Little/Tingley | April, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-316-36328-6 $$15.95
1973, Knopf

(4) PS Illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith. After his cat, Pistachio, disappears, Ned begins hunting: "And so he started out to look / Straight through the pages of this book." Each busy collage illustration contains an oversize page number and graphic references to that number: for example, page four features four-leaf clovers and a golfer shouting "Four!" The illustrations occasionally don't include details mentioned in the clever rhyming text.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta