Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens / Illustrated by Stevens Crummel

This is a great picture book about a community of prairie dogs whose lives are changed when a dog drops a bright green tennis ball down into their town. One of them accidentally ends up with a fuzzy piece of the tennis ball on his head and this starts a new fad where to be "cool" you must have fuzz. Of course, the fuzz cannot last forever and once it's gone the frenzy starts. Everyone is trying to get everyone else's fuzz! A fun twist at the end leads the prairie dogs to try their paws at cooperation to end the frenzy once and for all. And it works. The book ends happily ever after...but on the end papers we see...

...the same dog, this time with a bright orange tennis ball! What will the prairie dogs do this time! You will have to imagine it out yourself.