The value of cooperation, teamwork, thoughtfulness, and sharing with friends are all important themes revealed in this entertaining and engaging story.
For the SEL shelves, here’s a feel-good book full of thoughtfulness and empathy about the small things we can each do to make the world a better place.
There’s not a word out of place in this blustery adventure, a masterful collaboration of illustration and text; this cozy winter tale with its striking pictures may appear to be cold but is quite the opposite.
Though this tale includes unicorns, a soccer game, and teamwork, it ends abruptly, and there may not be sufficient action to excite readers enough to want a second reading.
This winter tale would work well for dusky afternoon story hours in December or a bedtime story; the muted illustrations and the text, which has a perfect scan and beat, begin energetically but slow to soothing, steady levels as the animals settle down to sleep.