FICTION

Please, No More Nuts!

by Jonathan FENSKE
Please, No More Nuts! illus. by Jonathan Fenske. 32p. Penguin. Jan. 2018. Tr $14.99. ISBN 9780515159660; pap. $3.99. ISBN 9780515159653.
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K-Gr 2—In this follow-up to Fenske's We Need More Nuts, two squirrels who once adored nuts now decide there can be too much of a good thing. They attempt to persuade readers to take the nuts away by pleading and offering them as a gift. They've had enough of nuts for every meal, they explain over and over. This slight story offers rhyming text and cartoon illustrations. Words and a few phrases are repeated, which will help newly independent readers feel successful. Context clues in both the story and the cartoon drawings offer hints about possibly new vocabulary ("queasy," "hoard"). The story ends somewhat abruptly, as, presumably, readers are not persuaded to take the nuts and chooses instead to close the book.
VERDICT Purchase where books a step above emergent readers are needed, and where the first title is popular.
Reviewed by Mary Kuehner, Arapahoe Library District, CO , Mar 01, 2018

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