(3) K-3 Illustrated by Wendy Watson. Narrator Jack and his siblings Maybelle and Eddie look forward to a delicious potato fry with spuds they glean from a neighbor's field. But the siblings' harvest turns out to be more stone than starch, and their proud Ma makes them return what they took. The old-fashioned-looking illustrations, done in muted earth tones, enhance the story's gentle lesson in integrity.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Wendy Watson. A little girl (perhaps ten years old) narrates this story of wartime Poland, describing her visits with the abandoned cats in Krasinski Square and how they came to be helpers in a scheme to smuggle food into the Warsaw Ghetto. Both author and artist achieve a fine balance of beauty and sadness. Simple, graceful words and pictures make this adventure story a taut and moving one.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2004

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Wendy Watson. In the spirit of the Watsons' Father Fox's Pennyrhymes, here are fifteen vignettes that focus on the season's joyful preparations and the warmth of family activities. The rhythms are as crisp as they were in the earlier book, but the mood is gentler. Wendy Watson's full-page art in this larger book is more appropriate for group sharing, and her foxes, while less delicately detailed, are characterized with more subtlety and assurance.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003

(3) PS Illustrated by Wendy Watson. "A brand-new year has just begun-- / Twelve big months of Rabbit fun...." With a poem for every month, Hubbell chronicles a year of Rabbit celebrations--the same ones that humans have, although the holidays aren't always named. The titular moon is featured in each lyrical poem. Watson's appealingly textured paintings feature black-outlined rabbits set against luminous, layered-color backdrops.

Reviewer: Martha Sibert

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Wendy Watson. Why do Coyote's teeth appear broken? Why does Mouse walk softly? The answers can be found in these seven interconnected tales of friendship, originally told around a fireside to children of the Hopi Indian community of northern Arizona. Watson's cartoon illustrations, featuring an endearingly frazzled cast, capture the spirit of these disarmingly absurd, unexpectedly touching tales.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2001

(2) PS Illustrated by Wendy Watson. "Oh my goodness, oh my dear / Sassafras & ginger beer, / Chocolate cake & apple punch: / I'm too full to eat my lunch." Father Fox's enormous brood gathers around the fireplace to be entertained by his nonsense songs and rhymes. Detailed, good-humored watercolors follow the adventures of the irrepressible fox family throughout the year in this welcome reissue.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: October, 1971

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Wendy Watson. Twenty-five brief poems with the cadence of nursery rhymes capture the many moods of amore from courting to quarreling and everything in between. Many of the rhymes derive a quiet vigor from Watson's nod to love's pitfalls as well as its pleasures--an acknowledgment that will escape the collection's intended audience. Softly sketched animal characters have a quaint, old-fashioned appeal.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute