The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Jenkins, Emily

Five Creatures

32 pp. | Farrar/Foster | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32341-0 $$16.00

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Tomek Bogacki. In this book inspired by Venn diagrams, a girl thinks about the relationships among the "three humans, and two cats" in her family. She begins with similarities in appearance--"three with orange hair" (mother, child, one cat)--then moves on to other groups: "two who can read, and one who is learning." The curvilinear, faux-naive artwork conveys as much of the meaning and humor as the lighthearted narration.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2001