Every night Little Hoot wants to go to bed at a reasonable hour like his other non-owl friends, and every night it's the same story. What he doesn't like, however, is bedtime. Like most owls he goes to school, plays with his friends, and practices his pondering and staring. Here's how a normal day is for Little Hoot. Overall, I'd probably only recommend this if it were given with the other two books. but it doesn't seem to work as well here as it did in the other books. So the young owl occupies himself for the required number of minutes and then goes to bed. Little Hoot's parents say he has to stay up for one more hour and play before he's allowed to go to bed. And the story seemed like it was over so quickly in this one. The illustrations are cute (I like Little Hoot's hooded sweatshirt) but they're not quite as engaging as those in Little Oink. But I don't get the need for fourteen exclamation points on the end of one sentence.) For some reason, though, this book was riddled with nonsensical dialogue tags and extra letters and punctuation that come across as way too casual for a published book. I can usually turn to Amy Krouse Rosenthal's books for some solid writing and storytelling. I've read the other two books in the series ( Little Pea and Little Oink) and thought they were really cute.
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