Wild About Books
New York Times Picture Book Best Seller
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award
American Library Association Notable Book
IRA-CBC Children's Choice
Over half a million copies sold
"The author's sense of playfulness in plot and language ("llamas read dramas while eating their llunches"; a hippo wins the "Zoolitzer Prize") creates a lavish literary stew."—School Library Journal (starred review)
"A wonderful advertisement for the joys of a literary life." —American Library Association Booklist (starred review)