• Age: 0 to 3
• Grade: p
• Reading age: 0

This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child’s sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations:

Don’t take a bath with a pig.
It loves wallowing in the mud.

Don’t start a food fight with an octopus.
It has six more arms than you do.

The simplicity and humor in the text and watercolor illustrations will make this book a story-time favorite.

LITSA TROCHATOS est une designer d’intérieur qui aime aussi la peinture et la photographie. Elle a été incitée à écrire cette histoire — son premier livre — par la naissance de son jeune neveu. Elle vit à Toronto en Ontario.

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Virginia Johnson is a Canadian artist and textile designer. Her collections of colorful prints on clothing, shawls, and home accessories have been sold around the world in stores including Anthropologie, Barneys, Holt Renfrew, Liberty London, and J.Crew. She also illustrated a series of books for Kate Spade and The Perfectly Imperfect Home for Deborah Needleman. Johnson lives with her husband and two children in Toronto, Canada.

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• Commended, OLA Best Bets (Picture Books, Honorable Mention)