Hayley's Children's Book Reviews

Sick Day by David McPhail is the perfect book for young beginning readers with its simple text and beautiful colorful illustrations. A young boy is sick and his friends, dog and bird, both try to help him feel better. This is a sweet story that shows readers no matter who is feeling under the weather friends can come together to make each other feel better.

Everybody enjoys snow days! Even Mouse…he is warm inside the house having fun finding and nibbling on crumbs while the family is busy baking cookies. When Mouse accidentally gets swept outside in the snow the real adventure begins. Read Snow Day For Mouse by Judy Cox and follow Mouse on his adventure through the snow, meet his new friends and see if Cat ever catches up with him.

Its springtime and almost all the animals at the Springfield Zoo are having babies except the tree kangaroo and the pandas. Life isn’t fair! Then one day the zoo’s veterinarian arrives with an endangered egg needing someone to give it a home. Wild About You by Judy Sierra is a heartfelt story about adoption, reminding readers it takes a whole community to raise a baby.