A hungry mouse gets more than she bargained for when she tries to shake loose a tasty nut in Vignocchi, Chiarinotti, and Borando's debut collaboration.Opening vertically to emphasize the tree's impressive height, the first spread of this energetic picture book shows a small mouse looking up longingly at a nut high in a tree. Hungry, she declares her intentions to "gobble [it] up" and starts to shake the tree this way and that until at last down from the tree fallsa hungry fox. No sooner does it land than it exclaims that it is going to gobble up the little mouse (as foxes do). The mouse scurries up the tree in fright, and the fox begins to shake it until down tumblesa hungry warthog. And on the pattern goes, with frightened prey hiding in the tree and hungry predators giving it a shake only to dislodge a bigger, hungrier animal. The three co-authors have delivered a delightful narrative, full of comically narrow escapes, and Borando returns with her smooth styling and fresh, uncluttered spreads that bring visual humor and irony that hold right through till the final page. The book's design requires readers to turn the book as the layout keeps shifting from vertical to horizontal, and while readers end up mimicking all the tree shaking in the narrative, the effect is a little wearing.A charming workout. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

PreS-Gr 1-This interactive, participatory picture book opens on a vertical spread to show the distance between a hungry mouse and a delicious-looking nut sitting high up in a tree. The mouse and the reader shake the tree left and right in an attempt to jiggle the nut loose from the branches above. Quite unexpectedly to the mouse and to readers, a hungry fox thumps to the ground declaring it will gobble up the mouse. The mouse flees up the tree, while the fox and the reader shake the tree left and right until down drops another predator: a warthog who wants to gobble up the fox. The book continues in this manner until a series of once-hungry, now fleeing animals are up in the tree and an angry bear is shaking the tree's trunk frantically. In the book's final pages, the bear stares hungrily at everything (and everyone) that's fallen from the tree, with an exposed, leafless tree towering above the scene. In a surprise ending, all of the animals are left stunned, and the readers-in certain laughter. Overall, this work feels like a comedic mash-up of the style and themes prevalent in Christie Matheson's Tap the Magic Tree and Joe Kulka's Wolf's Coming! VERDICT With minimal text, open space and bold, eye-catching illustrations, this book will serve best as a read-aloud. Purchase for storytime and guaranteed kid-pleasing giggles.-Brianne Colombo, Fairfield Free Public Library, NJ © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

A mouse spots a delicious-looking acorn in a tree. Shaking the tree produces a fox, who ogles the "scrumptious mouse." After the mouse climbs the tree, seeking safety, the fox shakes it, producing a hungry warthog, and so on. This book, designed to be read primarily from top to bottom instead of left to right, hasn't an expendable word, and the flat digital art no superfluous line. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.