Who Wants a Hug?

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond Village Library, Raymond, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 25, 2015

Review

Skunk has a bag of Super Stinky Tricks he uses to try to trip up a bear who gives great hugs and everyone loves.

Although no one seems to like Skunk, Bear loves everyone and tries repeatedly to give Skunk hugs, but Skunk will have none of it. Skunk plays many stinky tricks on Bear in the attempt of making Bear unhappy but all of his tricks back fire on him. Skunk feels really bad now and decides that he does need a hug from Bear but when Bear does so he realizes just how stinky Skunk is and is shocked.

Skunk loves the hug and wants more but Bear is reluctant until he gamely reappears with a clothes pin on his nose and gives Skunk all the hugs he could ever want.

The bag of Super Stinky Tricks is now a bag of tricks filled with clothespins. Maybe now Skunk will be getting hugs from more forest animals. Everyone deserves a hug this book clearly touts.

The artist used ink and pencil on paper and Photoshop to create the digital illustrations. They are bright and simple with a great forest feel. The print is medium sized and done in a bold black.

Cream of the crop.

Overall Book Score: excellent