Hoot Owl: Master of Disguise

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy Library, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 11, 2015

Review

Hoot Owl flies through the night looking for his next meal donning one disguise after another in an attempt to convince that meal to come to him. He is unsuccessful until he meets a pizza that succumbs to his genius, that is, it doesn't move and so he eats it. This is an appealing, colorful book, and the silliness of Hoot's disguise attempts is fun, but I felt that this was just an okay book. My young audience loved Hoot's fluffy lamb disguise, but it seemed strange to me that an owl would want to eat a lamb. And the cadence of the words wasn't great for a read-aloud. It is reminiscent of the book "Shh! We Have a Plan" but it makes less sense with more words.

Overall Book Score: good