(3) PS Illustrated by Kerry Argent. Although everyone else complains that Lily Hippo is too loud, the new music and drama teacher is delighted with her magnificent ability to make noise. Lily becomes the star of the school play, and the audience loves her. The joyful illustrations match the energy of the text and the boisterous hippo while aptly portraying her emotions.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(4) PS Illustrated by Kerry Argent. Six frolicking rabbits don't notice a hungry fox prowling until he's upon them. As the number of the rabbits (and the onlooking sheep, ducks, and mice) dwindle one by one, the fox keeps trying to pounce. Although it is not clear at first if the rabbits have been eaten, their safe return home is revealed at the end. Expressive watercolors, showing a fierce fox, illustrate this counting book.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin

(3) PS Illustrated by Kerry Argent. Full-page watercolors display four barnyard parents' surprise as they enter pens and nests to tuck in their energetic children but find another's offspring. The jokesters' gleeful expressions change to chastened then to sleepy, but the little ones still find age-old ways to delay bedtime. Human parents and children will chuckle at the final delaying tactic of the piglets: "We have to wee, wee, wee!"

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) PS Illustrated by Kerry Argent. One by one, Mother Bear lulls her brood to sleep for their long winter's nap. She croons a special rhymed verse for each little bear before they drift into their quiet slumber. Argent's expressive illustrations aptly convey the transition between being awake and falling asleep with imaginative dreamscapes that complement the soothing lullabies.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty