The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Salley, Coleen

Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail

40 pp. | Harcourt | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-15-204935-5 $16.00

(2) PS Illustrated by Janet Stevens. The eponymous possum is back, this time wondering why his tail is "naked and funny looking." His mama--a portly, comfortable human--provides a lively elaboration on a traditional tale. Salley makes the most of the twists and turns whereby the trickster is tricked; Stevens's big, boisterous illustrations fairly leap off the page, nicely suiting them for the group-sharing the tale demands.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2005