Perfect Pony

Perfect Pony
by
Dandi Daley Mackall and Claudia Wolf
ages 5-7.

This is one in a series of books about horses and ponies meant for K-3 readers. The cover says "I Can Read! Reading with Help 2". After I read it, I checked our library's catalog and there is a book that is set before it about a horse named "Bob", but this story stands alone fine.
Dave gets a pony, Lily, for his birthday. Although Jen already has a horse, Bob, she is jealous. She soon realizes that both of them are happy with their mounts and there is no reason to be jealous.
This is a pleasant book with pleasing pictures and a moral about jealousy. It is published by Zonderkidz and it should appeal to Christian and non-Christian families and there are always those readers who can't get enough horse stories.
Maybe they should have chosen a more specific title like "Lily, the Perfect Pony" because I see more than one book with this title in my library's catalog.

Hey, Little Ant

Hey, Little Ant

by

Phillip and Hannah Hoose & Debbie Tilley

(Hannah was age 9 when she cowrote this book).

Fiction, ages 3-7.

What a quandary! Should the boy squish the ant or not? The ant begs for his life. There is a song in the back that presents the whole book as a duet song.

This book is simple and profound. What will the child decide?

This could be a conversation starter for a college philosophy class or simply read as a slightly humorous story.

In my case, this was on a list of books for nature appreciation (or is that nature destruction)?