(3) K-3 Illustrated by Luke Flowers. This collection of songs and poems by the iconic television host offers nostalgia for adults who grew up listening to his comforting, empowering messages. As well, the combination of imagination-encouraging silliness and reassurance that it's okay to feel sad or angry sometimes should resonate with a new generation of readers. Bright, cheerful illustrations complement the rhymes and free verse, best suited to shared reading. Ind.

Reviewer: Renée Wheeler

(3) PS Illustrated by Luke Flowers. Ten multicolored dinosaurs arrive, one by one, to dance the night away. Readers will savor the rich vocabulary and wordplay ("Four dinos frolic face-to-face") as the jaunty rhymes highlight dances ranging from the waltz to the Dougie to, following the suspenseful arrival of a T. rex, a very comical moonwalk. Dynamic jewel-toned illustrations capture the exuberance of this prehistoric party.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Luke Flowers. A frustrated narrator attempts to recite a nursery rhyme amidst the "hullabalooo" wrought by Bo Peep's renegade sheep upon a village filled with Mother Goose characters. Flowers's busy illustrations reflect the chaos of the narrative and create a fractured Little-Golden-Book visual sensibility, though the intertwined stories can be difficult to track in both art and text. The traditional rhymes are appended.

Reviewer: Jeannie Coutant