by Laurie Isop, Gwen Millward
How Do You Hug A Porcupine? is one of my absolute favorite books! I would read this to lower grades (K-2) and for each animal I would ask how they think they would hug that specific animal. I would then read the book and compare the answers from the students to the actual text. Next, we would go ove...
Not realizing this was illustrated by Gwen Millward (The Bog Baby). I wasn't expecting a great deal. The text is sweet and simple and nicely suited to reading aloud to preschoolers and early elementary students. But the illustrations are just to die for. So sweet, so cute, so wonderful. I just love ...
Cute premise but a couple of the other creatures the narrator didn't want to hug such as the skunk. Why couldn't he/she figure out a way for them, too, or leave them out for another book? Fair illustrations.
How do you kiss a warthog?