From Publishers Weekly
On the Go and Patterns, two additions to the Animagicals series by Carol Diggory Shields, illus. by Svjetlan Junakovic, features transformations with the lift of a flap. In the first, the front green fender of a sports car turns into the back end of a beetle; in the second, only the animal's patterned fur shows until the flap is opened and its head appears. (July)
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-These offerings-long, narrow, and rectangular-are great fun. Shields's riddle poems face simple, colorful paint-and-crayon illustrations. The right-hand page folds out from the center to reveal the answer to the riddle through another illustration and the last few words or a line of the poem. On the Go is the more challenging of the two for the clues are tougher: "A tricycle's slow,/compared to a bike,/But going slow/is what we like./We slither along,/leaving our trails-." Junakovic's art provides hints about the creature as parts of tires on a trike turn out to be the back section of-fold out the page-"Slow but steady, three little snails." Patterns presents clues that most readers will guess. These fine, fresh offerings are good choices for groups.
Meghan R. Malone, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
