(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg. With six tongue-in-cheek variants, the Ahlbergs (father and daughter) progress from simple changes in the canonical tale's details and repartee to a version with thirty-three bears. The verbal wit, the delicately limned pen and watercolor art with its plenitude of intriguing detail, and clever touches of paper engineering add up to a barrel of fun. Re-reading will ensue.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2013

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg. Puttering in Grandma's garden leads to an informative session on worms. The tidy book design and winsome pencil and gouache illustrations nicely balance the fictional story with its scientific aim. There's lots of humor (e.g., a mole's shopping list: "worm, worm, worm, worm") that's also fact-based. The final "How to Be a Wormologist!" provides a helpful review. Ind.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg. A pig named Esmeralda gets caught in a custody battle between the divorced Harbottles, and two child-heroes help save the pig's bacon. Colored-pencil drawings aid readers in following the twists and turns of the pignapping and subsequent rescue-and-chase scenes. Everywhere is evidence of the rousing good fun of the printed word along with helpfulness in apprehending it.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004