Reviews

This delightful book is a creative twist on the traditional story of The Three Little Pigs.

The Dippy family were messy eaters. Actually, they were real slobs. Joy Cowley is the author of this over-sized, (approximately 19” by 15”) low level book that features a family that enjoy their food a little too much.

In the empty lot behind Mr. Sneelock’s store, young Morris McGurk is starting a circus.  It’s colossal! Stupendous! Terrific! Tremendous!  It’s the Circus McGurkus with Truffles and Huffles and Juggling Jotts and Grizzly-Ghastlys and more.  Do you think Mr. Sneelock will mind when he finds that he has a big circus behind his store? (Fountas [...]

Big Moon Tortilla is set in a Tohono O’odham village in southern Arizona. Marta loses her homework and breaks her glasses but her grandmother cheers her up…

In this wonderful book, the traditional story of the Three Little Pigs gets twisted around.  The wolves are good, the pig is big and bad and the houses are made of brick, concrete block and armor plates.  Children and adults will enjoy the cleverness of the pig, who gets creative when huffing and puffing doesn’t [...]

Clarence Goes out West and Meets a Purple Horse is written and illustrated by Arizona resident Jean Ekman Adams.