(3) PS Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Inspirational rhyming text printed in a cursive font encourages readers to make and hear music everywhere (Play) and to build a variety of imaginative homes, from castles to cabins and submarines to rockets (Build). Final longer poems provide ideas for music- and fort-making. Cheery full-bleed illustrations on thick cardstock pages show a diverse cast of characters. Suitable for preschool classrooms looking for theme-specific read-alouds. Review covers these titles: Build Me a Home and Play Me Some Music.

Reviewer: Amy Seto Forrester

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each book shows a child having a special day: on a bike ride (Orange), at a tea party (Pink), at the zoo (Brown), and visiting a museum (Gray). Along the way, the title colors appear around them. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. "What Is [Color]?" pages explain rudimentary color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Brown, Gray, Orange, and Pink.

Reviewer: Pearl Higgins

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each book shows a child having a special day: on a bike ride (Orange), at a tea party (Pink), at the zoo (Brown), and visiting a museum (Gray). Along the way, the title colors appear around them. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. "What Is [Color]?" pages explain rudimentary color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Brown, Gray, Orange, and Pink.

Reviewer: Pearl Higgins

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each book shows a child having a special day: on a bike ride (Orange), at a tea party (Pink), at the zoo (Brown), and visiting a museum (Gray). Along the way, the title colors appear around them. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. "What Is [Color]?" pages explain rudimentary color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Brown, Gray, Orange, and Pink.

Reviewer: Pearl Higgins

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each book shows a child having a special day: on a bike ride (Orange), at a tea party (Pink), at the zoo (Brown), and visiting a museum (Gray). Along the way, the title colors appear around them. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. "What Is [Color]?" pages explain rudimentary color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Brown, Gray, Orange, and Pink.

Reviewer: Pearl Higgins

(3) K-3 Step into Reading series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Easy-to-read rhyming verse celebrates the attributes of snow as two children frolic and revel in associated winter activities like baking cookies with Grandma. The cleanly composed illustrations add a lively complement to this story that's well worth returning to while snuggling up after a day of winter play. Two removable sticker sheets are included.

Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each simple, repetitive text describes a family activity, focusing on the title color ("Mom and I get into the car. The car is red"). Bright illustrations are accompanied by two easy-to-read sentences in large type. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. An appended "What Is [color]?" page explains very basic color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Black, Red, and Yellow.

Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each simple, repetitive text describes a family activity, focusing on the title color ("Mom and I get into the car. The car is red"). Bright illustrations are accompanied by two easy-to-read sentences in large type. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. An appended "What Is [color]?" page explains very basic color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Black, Red, and Yellow.

Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi

(4) K-3 Looking Glass Library: Colors series. Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Each simple, repetitive text describes a family activity, focusing on the title color ("Mom and I get into the car. The car is red"). Bright illustrations are accompanied by two easy-to-read sentences in large type. The narratives, though bland, offer reading support, and the pictures usually match the text well. An appended "What Is [color]?" page explains very basic color theory. Glos. Review covers these Looking Glass Library: Colors titles: Black, Red, and Yellow.

Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Julia Woolf. Billy Bob is a gum-chewer who has "one tiny trouble, / for try as he might he could not blow a bubble." Practice makes more than perfect, as Billy blows a bubble so big he floats away. Smith stretches for some rhymes, but Woolf's round, friendly, bubblicious illustrations (most notably a wordless double-page explosion of pink gooiness) are chuckle-worthy.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger