BUYING
ADVISORY: EL(K-3) –OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE
APPEAL: AVERAGE
This is story
of a school Otto who is very set in his ways. When an egg of sorts appears, he
just ignores it. When a creature hatches from it, he decides he must find its
mother. While Pio the squirrel looks for his mother, the creature named Otto
gets bigger and bigger. Each day he makes Pio some soup to eat for when he gets
home. Eventually Otto is too big for the squirrel house and Pio must make an
important decision.
I see this type
of story a lot in kids books, with the squirrel who is set in his ways as an
old man character. I prefer this version by far –I always thought it was a bit
unsafe to have children pursuing friendship with loner men. The illustrations
are charming and its fun to watch Otto grow. It does seem overly long, both in
number of pages and in plotline. I found
myself wishing something else would happen outside of the day to day ‘search’
and ‘soup’ routine.
Reviewer: Stephanie MLS &
Author.
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