Francesco Tullio Altan

The thing I really like about Fall is Coming is the main character, a rabbit with white fur and cool blue polka dots.

The sentences are very short and easy, which is perfect for the target group first readers.

The illustrations are nice, but nothing spectacular or memorable. Mostly the pictures are kept simple and often show just one item, a sun, a tree, etc.

The real let down is the lack of a story which makes any sense.
We see our rabbit going on a bike ride with his friend, a bird who show more goes by the name of Colombino (which is for young kids difficult to pronounce).
They have a rest under a tree and fall asleep. In the meantime autumn arrives, the leaves fall off and the trees feel cold. (oh well.)
Rabbit puts on a sweater (what happened to his fur?) and goes back to school and draws a sun with his coloured pencils.

I think, the funky rabbit deserves a much better story. show less

It’s not bad, its just old. It may be a new edition, but it feels 40 years old. And the illustrations look 40 years old. A simple board book about the day in the life of a hippo. There are much better hippo books.

This is a very simple book for toddlers and babies. Hippo is shown on each page accompanied by a simple sentence describing what he is doing such as brushing his teeth or putting on his striped t-shirt. Very large and colourful illustrations show what he is doing to assist with picture clues. A great little story for family libraries as well as pre-school classrooms. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley.

This is an extremely simple story about a bunny and her friend and what they do in the fall. There is not much of a story, but there are some simple pictures and the text describes what is happening in the pictures. My granddaughter sat and listened to the book, but when it was done, she just handed me something else and asked me to read it. This was not a winner for us. Thanks to Xist publishing for a copy of this book to read and review.