Welcome to the Neighborwood

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 1, 2015

Review

From the start, this book has your interest. When you read the title you think "Welcome to the Neighborhood" but then you double check what your brain thought the title was and realize it actually is "Welcome to the Neighborwood"?. And that is what this beautiful, informative pop-up book does; it introduces readers to a few animals that live in the woods. Each page has a different animal, which includes a pop-up display of the animal, and its home as well as a few brief facts about the animal.

The pop-up will catch the young reader's eye and entice them to read about the animal. The information is very accessible for a young person and the text is easy to understand. For example each animal's size is compared to something a young child would be familiar with so they could get a better picture of the size of an animal. This is a wonderful book but the pop-ups make the book delicate so it might not be well for a library.

Overall Book Score: excellent