The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Wumbers

40 pp. | Chronicle | July, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4521-1022-6 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld. Double-page spreads feature random characters speaking in "wumbers" ("Would you like some honey 2 swee10 your tea?" "Yes, that would be 1derful"). This might strike readers as more innovative if they weren’t already replacing syllables with numbers in their text messages, but the humor of Lichtenheld's cartoon illustrations is likely to grab their attention. Exaggerated facial expressions offer picture clues that are even more fun to decode.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012