My Pet Book

"What’s a perfect pet? For the little boy in Bob Staake’s charming, rhyming picture book brightly illustrated in his rounded, cartoonish style, it’s “a frisky red hardcover” that doesn’t shed or drink from toilet bowls, and “didn’t even poop.” All’s well until the maid (the book’s one odd move) cleans up the house and gives the beloved book to charity. Fortunately this paean to bound books in an age increasingly dominated by screens ends well: “And now the boy and his pet book / Had their very own tale to tell.” (For ages 3 to 7)"