Book reviews: Artful Animals

By Stephanie Owen Reeder
Updated January 25 2017 - 1:14pm, first published January 13 2017 - 11:45pm

Using animal characters in children's picture books often gives authors and illustrators the freedom to be particularly creative and imaginative. Somewhere Else (Penguin. 32 pp. $24.99) by Gus Gordon features an eccentric duck and his anthropomorphic friends. George Laurent, who sports a very natty hound's-tooth cap, comes up with all sorts of excuses, as his avian friends try to tempt him to visit "somewhere else". These excuses range from being too busy baking, ironing, watching television and doing yoga, to having to write his memoirs.

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