(3) PS Where can you find faces? In a chair, toolbox, or garden--almost anywhere kids look, they can find eyes, noses, and mouths. Piven's colorful photographs of found objects show how a zucchini, leaves, a bracelet, and nuts and bolts can be arranged into faces. The direct-address text encourages readers to be creative and assemble their own inventive menagerie.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(3) K-3 A girl answers her grandmother's barrage of questions about school by skipping the "same old boring answers" and creating amusing pictures of her teachers and classmates instead. Everyday objects characteristic of each person get incorporated into the exuberant collage portraits. Colorful and chock-full of similes, this title will likely launch engaging classroom language and art activities.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(4) K-3 This whimsical appreciation of felines focuses on distinctive traits of twelve domestic breeds: e.g., Persian cats are glamorous, Siberians are tough, Ragdolls are soft, etc. "Feline Facts" are included on each spread, but this is mostly a fanciful, humorous treatment of random information about cats and a showcase for Piven's mixed-media collage illustrations.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) K-3 The narrator of this goofy art-project of a story tries to improve on her simple family picture by adding objects that better describe each member of her family. Similes abound, some more effective than others. The resulting portraits, composed of gouache and watercolor with the real objects glued on, will delight readers and inspire them to make their own.

Reviewer: Elizabeth Shaver

(4) K-3 Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back. Illustrated by Hanoch Piven & Janet Stein. Photographs by Adi Gilad. Forks, scouring pads, metal pipes--these are just a few of the objects used in Piven's innovative three-dimensional collages, which depict various animals vying for the purple feather that a boy finds on his pillow one night. The unremarkable rhyming text takes a back seat to the eye-opening artwork, which may inspire readers to create their own found-object creatures. The book comes with--what else?--a purple feather.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann