(4) PS Illustrated by Sue Heap. Tomorrow is Very Little Sleeping Beauty's birthday party. Too excited to sleep, she sneaks around the castle and finds one of her gifts: a spinning wheel. The fragmented plot pales in comparison to Heapy's previous recastings of a fairy-tale protagonist as an exuberant modern-day toddler (Very Little Red Riding Hood; Very Little Cinderella), but Heap's scenes of "castle" life continue to be enchanting.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sue Heap. George finds a dinosaur egg in his backyard. When the dinosaur hatches, however, its appetite is out of control, and eventually it consumes George and the entire city. Not to worry: it burps everything back out. The friendly illustrations enhance the story's silliness and ensure readers that there's nothing to fear.

Reviewer: Aimee Chevrette Bear

(3) PS Illustrated by Sue Heap. This book casts Cinderella as a spunky toddler ("Cleaning all done. Now I have cookie"), complete with "Ugly Sisters" and "the Fairy Godmother" (babysitter). Headstrong Cinderella crashes the party wearing "my blue dress" but must leave at midnight without "my bestest boot." As in Very Little Red Riding Hood, Heapy's tongue-in-cheek text is well matched by Heap's animated watercolor illustrations.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(2) PS Illustrated by Sue Heap. In this re-imagining of the familiar fairy tale, Little Red is a toddler: affectionate, stubborn, and imperious. "No touch my cakes!" She hugs the big bad wolf, calls him Foxie, and proceeds to order him around. The sprightly, scribbly watercolor illustrations particularize the characters, and varied type sizes give the reader-aloud lots of performance hints.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sue Heap. In this successor to two other How to... books, the narrator, a "Super-Ballerina-Soccer-Mermaid-Fairy Princess," introduces a wealth of professions. The joke--basically the narrator's serious articulation of silly ideas ("You shouldn't EVER bite the Boss when he is talking to you")--goes on a little long, but there are lots of funny moments. Heap's vignettes of kids demonstrating the jobs are entertaining.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) PS Illustrated by Sue Heap. A party invitation poses a problem for Polly, who lives in pink pajamas. Polly's friends lend her clothes, but they don't really fit her style. All ends well when the gathering turns out to be a pajama party. Lively, childlike crayon and acrylic illustrations with large figures and lots of pink add to the story's appeal.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sue Heap. The big sister (How to Be a Baby...by Me, the Big Sister) has more advice, this time about weddings. Wearing a puffy white dress, the "bride" authoritatively lays out the rules: "You can marry your best friend or your teacher or your pet or your daddy." The narrator's views on marriage are authentically childlike, and kid-friendly illustrations in soft colors enhance the text's humor.

Reviewer: Marika Jeffrey

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sue Heap. "'I know what,' cried clever Clive. / 'Let's push the oven down the slide!'" It's kindergartners run amuck after their teacher gets stuck in the classroom jungle gym. However, as readers may predict, the kids come to find their unsupervised classroom lacking. Hamilton's rhymes are worthy of the story's delectable premise and the illustrations' gleeful chaos.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sue Heap. A big sister describes what it's like to be a baby, listing the many things that infants, specifically her own brother, can't do. All along it's obvious that her disparaging comments hide a whole lotta love. The breezy illustrations are supplemented with handwritten lists (e.g., "Here's What Else You Can't Do"). Author and illustrator get the balance of annoyance and adoration just right.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2007

(3) PS Illustrated by Sue Heap. In a pleasant variant of the won't-go-to-sleep bedtime ploy, Cowboy Kid keeps kissing his toy friends (Texas Ted, Denver Dog, Hank the Horse) goodnight. This has the same theme (and characters) if not the same degree of action as Heap's Cowboy Baby; Sheriff Pa is once again a comforting presence, as are the contours and warm southwestern shades of the illustrations.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton

(3) 4-6 Few people can tell ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet apart: "Well, until we start talking," as Ruby writes in the journal the girls share. Outgoing, bossy Ruby leads; shy Garnet follows. When their widowed father and his girlfriend buy a bookstore in the country, the move precipitates changes in the twins' relationship. Economical line drawings reinforce the book's funny, sharply realized characters and realistic tone.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.