(2) K-3 Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. Every Halloween Hubknuckles peers in a family's window and then sweeps away in a ghostly dance. This year, Lee boldly announces that she's going to dance with him. Ray's black-and-white drawings of family scenes and costumed children playing Halloween games are warm and friendly, while her pictures of the spectral dance add just the right touch of mystery to the story.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1985

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. Color-saturated watercolor and pencil illustrations and a spare poetic text describe a tawny eagle's sunset hunt in the Serengeti. The grace and power of the bird are well conveyed as it soars above the plains and the abundant, varied wildlife. With the appended notes, this title is useful for classes studying the region's habitat, as well as the tawny eagle itself. Reading list, websites.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. In vague free verse, Johnston describes how generations of barn owls have hunted, slept, and raised their young in and around the old barn in a wheat field for "one hundred years at least." The text and watercolor illustrations, which show the owl with an exaggerated wingspan, offer a poetic rather than scientific look at barn owls, but may inspire readers to seek additional information elsewhere.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey