Author: Janet Halfmann
Illustrator: Laurie Allen Klein
Publisher: SylvanDellPublishing.com
ISBN: 978-1907180753
Pages/Price: 32/$16.95
Category: Children’s Board Book/Children’s Fiction
About Fur and Feathers by Janet Halfmann
Fur and Feathers is the winner of a Gold Moonbeam Children’s Book Award. When Sophia dreams that howling winds whisk the fur and feathers right off her animal friends, she shares some of her clothes with them. But her clothing doesn’t work well for the animals. Seeing their disappointment, she offers to sew each one the right coat. Animals line up to explain what they need and why. Polar Bear needs white fur to stay warm and hide in the snow. Fish needs scales, but with slime. Snake needs scales too, but dry ones. And how will Sophia make a prickly coat for Porcupine? The award-winning team of Halfmann and Klein (Little Skink’s Tail) reunite to bring animal coverings (and classification) to life in an imaginative way. Sophia’s friends include Duck, Fish, Frog, Ladybug, Polar Bear, Porcupine, Snail, and Snake. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Scientific Classification, Skin Coverings, and Animal Classification. Additional Teaching Activities and Interactive Quizzes are available on the Sylvan Dell Publishing website.
My Thoughts on Fur and Feathers by Janet Halfmann
I enjoyed this book and so did my daughters. When Sophia goes to sleep the windstorm takes all of the outer coats off of all of her animal friends. This makes the animals cold. So Sophie, being a good friend helps to replace the missing clothes with buttons, pieces of fabric, feathers, pins and needles – you get the picture! It’s so fun to watch Sophie come up with replacement clothes for her friends, and for her friends to receive their new duds.
The illustrations are fun – and funny – and the ending, after Sophie wakes up from her dream, is very cute.
Your kids will enjoy this book as much as my family did, if not more.
About the Author, Janet Halfmann
(from amazon.com)
Janet Halfmann is an award-winning children’s author who strives to make her books come alive for young readers and listeners. She has written more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction.
My disclosure policy. I actually won this book from another blog. I’m glad I did.
I’m so happy you and your daughters enjoyed my book so much! Thanks for the wonderful review. And congratulations again on winning the book! Happy Reading!
that looks adorable! my little man would love this
Sounds like such a cute book. I’m sure my grand kids would love it.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. I’m so glad you enjoyed the story. As always, janet is terrific. She makes every story a pleasure to illustrate.
Thanks for stopping by. Your illustrations are beautiful and so much fun!
Wow! I want this for my home daycare library!
sounds like a great book!
This looks absolutely delightful! Thank you so much for sharing