The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Rylant, Cynthia

Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest

40 pp. | Simon | February, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-3943-6 $15.99

(3) K-3 Ready-to-Read: Annie and Snowball series. Illustrated by Suçie Stevenson. From Annie's porch swing, she has the perfect view of a new nest as it's being built. Annie and Henry spot a robin, then wait expectantly for her lovely blue eggs to hatch. Four brief chapters, illustrated with Stevenson's reliably warm pen-and-ink and watercolor paintings, detail the anticipation of witnessing one of the great events of springtime.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin