AMMA & ME REVIEW: "ELI, NO!"

I am currently helping to judge a national book award for first-time authors and illustrators and decided
to have my Korean Mother In-Law
help out.

Here's my AMMA & ME review
of "Eli, no!".

AMMA: Doggy so fancy. Very fancy.
I like dogs to be little ugly, little fat.
He looks not so funny. Looks like
an animation I saw… Clifford.

ME: I flipped through this book
at MoMA recently because the
cute, colorful, sophistocated artwork screamed PICK ME UP.
The colors are nice. The end-papers
are great – I love the bone and tennis ball pattern. The story reminds me quite a bit of NO DAVID, right down
to the loving ending.