Independent Reading Level: PK-3

This book is perfect, I like that it was all over the place being funny/silly yet it taught manners. I believe this is a great book for children and their parents to read. It is fun and goofy but very educational.

Manners books for kids. It’s a subculture that has been around forever and is unlikely to ever go away. Fourteen picture book creators take on manners in this mash up of talent. Each illustrator is given a double page spread to fill with their work as well as some advice on how to mind their manners. There is a specific setting in each one, including school, birthday party, table manners, and the supermarket.

This book is created by 14 different authors and illustrators. They each have two pages where they illustrate with their own unique style and write about the correct manners to have within certain contexts. This is a fantasy book because it features animals talking and acting like humans and not all of the laws of nature pertain to it. This book is an example of fantasy because the illustrations depict non-human things interacting and participating in human like activities. The one main thing that I didn't like was that although it was funny, it was pretty negative. Don't do this, don't do that. I see how kids would find it funny and its a comical way to talk abut manners but they could have focused more on DO rather than DON'T. ( )

Hynes Library:
LOVED the illustrations, all your favorite illustrators in one book!!! Not really a read aloud text in the classic sense. It was more of little hints and suggestions around the illustrations. AWESOME BOOK ( )