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Ruzzier, Sergio

The Sleepover and Other Stories

56 pp. | Chronicle | May, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4521-8338-1 $14.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-7972-0129-0 $9.99
(2) PS Fox + Chick series. Following their wacky antics in the previous two volumes (The Party and Other Stories, rev. 7/18; The Quiet Boat Ride and Other Stories, rev. 7/19), this charmingly mismatched pair returns for three more stories. The first begins after bedtime. Chick shows up uninvited for a sleepover, waking Fox and eventually taking over the entire bed, leaving Fox tired and awake on the floor. Next, Chick finds a lost hammer and decides to put a nail in a brick wall, but the hammer goes missing again before the deed is done. Fox suggests an alternative that gets the nail in the wall--a perfect place to hang a newly painted picture of a missing hammer. (Observant readers will know where to find the hammer, but Chick settles for admiring the painting of it.) The final story involves a surprise party for Chick's birthday, one that Chick demands Fox throw. Clever Fox manages to make it a surprise in spite of interfering Chick, but in the end the real surprise is for Fox. (It is not Chick's birthday at all.) The offbeat tales told through comic-panel art and colorful settings, combined with the excitable, bossy Chick and the easygoing, sensible Fox, create another installment in this comics-style picture-book series that works for readers and listeners alike. That brick wall from the second story can be found on the endpapers--bare at the front but covered with pictures of presumably missing objects at the back--tying together the latest exploits of these two friends beautifully.
Reviewer: Julie Roach | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2021

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