(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jane Dyer & Brooke Dyer. In this "Goldilocks" variation, Santa arrives on Christmas Eve at the cottage of three polar bears out taking a walk. Here, when Santa is finally discovered (after eating Baby Bear's Christmas pudding, etc.), he is a welcome visitor. The art is appealing in the extreme, the Scandinavian setting evoked in warm watercolor and gouache paintings that are both cozy and filled with motion.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013

(4) PS Illustrated by Jane Dyer & Brooke Dyer. Lyrics from the title song, appearing on a 1947 Nat King Cole album, are accompanied by appropriately sweet and dreamy pastel-hued illustrations. The train to Dreamland passes licorice houses and ice-cream stations, then travels around a candy mountain into the air. This sentimental voyage will best be appreciated by reminiscing grownups. Music is appended.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jane Dyer & Brooke Dyer. "PROTECT means, I will always be here to keep your cookies safe." As she did in Cookies and Christmas Cookies, Rosenthal defines challenging vocabulary words (e.g., endearment, unrequited) metaphorically via baked-goods-centric analogies. Like the text, the illustrations (which feature clothed animals and humans interacting on equal footing) occasionally cross the line between tenderness and sentimentality.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) PS Illustrated by Brooke Dyer. "Snore, little skunk, snore. / Turn over and snore some more." In quiet rhyming verse and cozy illustrations, twelve animals settle down for a long winter's sleep. The last page addresses the listener ("And even you, it's time for sleep") and shows a little girl in bed with twelve stuffed animals. The dreamy text and pictures are a good combination.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) PS Illustrated by Brooke Dyer. Wilson describes a variety of animal mothers who leave their babies briefly but always return. At the end of the rhyme, a human mother tells her child, "...time will fly right by, and then / I'll be coming home again." The illustrations are full of pleasant mother-child animal portraits, though--like the text--they sometimes approach the overly sweet.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) PS Illustrated with gentle watercolors, twenty-one poems, nursery rhymes, and lullabies featuring the moon, dreams, and sleeping are brought together in this volume. Though the collection lacks coherence, classics such as "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" are presented alongside contemporary works by Jack Prelutsky and Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman