The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Nevius, Carol

Baseball Hour

32 pp. | Cavendish | February, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7614-5380-2 $16.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Bill Thomson. As in Nevius and Thomson's previous collaborations (Karate Hour, Building with Dad), the illustrations' eye-popping perspectives steal the show. Here, a multiethnic, coed team practices its skills. The rhyming text zips along as the mixed-media pictures capture distinct moments: in one double-page spread, a fly ball hovers--life size--on the right, while on the left, the outfielder waits, squinting, glove at the ready.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin