The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Morris, Richard T.

This Is a Moose

40 pp. | Little | May, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-21360-8 $18.00

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. This romp chronicles the making of a documentary about a moose. The hapless (and visually absent until book's end) director grows increasingly frustrated as silly situations ("would someone kindly get the moose out of the space suit?") and interjections from offstage interrupt filming. Energy and over-the-top hilarity abound, but there are some befuddling plot details. Ever-changing fonts and text formats hamper readability.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith