cover image Little Whistle's Dinner Party

Little Whistle's Dinner Party

Cynthia Rylant. Harcourt Children's Books, $14 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-201079-9

Toytown's favorite guinea pig returns in Little Whistle's Dinner Party by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Tim Bowers, to host a midnight supper. He searches high and low for food and supplies, but when his friends finally arrive, Little Whistle is nowhere in sight. Bowers's sly perspectives bring the characters to life. ( Oct.)