(3) K-3 Illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. It's a mystery: each day for a year, one penguin arrives through the mail. As the numbers grow, readers get in some counting, addition, and multiplication practice (although ultimately the book's point isn't mathematical but ecological). The quirky art--predominately black, tangerine, and pale blue with plenty of white space--easily fills the book's oversize dimensions.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. The skeletons of Bonesville call Sherlock Bones when they find that a monster is stealing their bones. The story is mildly scary but repetitive and overly punny; the illustrations, however, are outstanding: crisp white skeletons and swaths of orange-red and yellow appear on black or deep-blue backgrounds. A fold-out poster on the back of the book jacket features an illustration of a full skeleton, with all bones labeled.

Reviewer: Grace Worcester Greene

(4) PS Translated by Amanda Katz. Illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. Paper engineering by Bernard Duisit. Ten penguins disappear one by one as they play; one explodes from eating too fast and another falls through a hole in the ice. The final spread shows all the penguins back safely: surprise! It was a joke. The vibrant, graphically imaginative art, diminutive size, and combination of pop-ups and pull tabs have tremendous kid appeal, but the rhyming text falls flat.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. A slippery bar of soap is responsible for a traffic jam, escaped bears, and even alien visitors. Oversize pages follow a family racing through the chaos, trying to get to the airport. Fans of Fromental and Jolivet's 365 Penguins will enjoy tracking the sequence of events in the stylish illustrations; those left perplexed will welcome the appended guide to "the chain of catastrophes."

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. It's a mystery: each day for a year, one penguin arrives through the mail. As the numbers grow, readers get in some counting, addition, and multiplication practice (although ultimately the book's point isn't mathematical but ecological). The quirky art--predominately black, tangerine, and pale blue with plenty of white space--easily fills the book's oversize dimensions.

Reviewer: Nell Beram