Toot & Puddle: Let It Snow - Holly Hobbie

Lovable tale of two friends full of holiday fun.

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Book details
  • Author:Holly Hobbie
  • # of pages: 32
  • Publisher:Little, Brown & Co.
  • Original Publication Date: 10/01/2007
  • Genre: Fiction - Holiday
  • Hardcover: $16.99
  • Publisher's Recommended Reading Level: 4-8
  • Read Aloud: 4+
  • Read Alone: 8+

Parents need to know

Parents need to know that nothing objectionable is presented in this final book of the Toot and Puddle series.

Families can talk about all the things Toot and Puddle think about when they try to find the perfect gift for each other. What did Toot choose, and why? What about Puddle?

Message

Social Behavior:

Toot and Puddle try hard to make just the right present for each other.

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Violence

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Common Sense says

What's the story?

Reviewed by Patricia Tauzer

Two irresistible pig friends, Toot and Puddle, try to come up with ideas for perfect presents to give each other. After much thought about past gifts as well as the things each one enjoys doing, they each hide away, privately working on an idea. Both come up with Christmas surprises that show what good friends they are.

Is it any good?

4
Two better friends could not be found. Though they are pigs, they are kind, thoughtful, and irresistibly lovable in much the same way as the characters in Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series...but even more so.

Toot and Puddle, along with Opal, enjoy life and one another. In this instance, they are enjoying the winter season and trying to come up with the perfect gift for one another, "something you made yourself, a one-of-a kind thingamajig, not just a whatsit anyone could buy in a store."

This is a Christmas book without the frenzy or the glitz that often accompanies the season. Nor does it bend into the religious sphere. It's all about a true and gentle caring that taps solidly into the heart of the holiday.

Holly Hobbie's uncluttered, watercolor illustrations are painted with a pleasant precision. Dressed in bulky winter sweaters, knitted scarves, and comfortable ski pants, Toot and Puddle are always small within the scene, but expressive, colorful, and central against the background. They are smiling and playful, except on the drizzly, rainy day page when their expressions match their disappointment. And they are always very, very cute.

If kids haven't already met Toot and Puddle, they are in for a treat, not only from this book, but from the others in this series that has spanned the past 10 years. As an extra treat, four limited-edition Toot & Puddle Christmas Ornaments -- simple cardboard rounds depicting four scenes from the book -- are included in the back.

Other choices

More Toot & Puddle Adventures:
Toot & Puddle
A Present for Toot
You Are My Sunshine
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Top of the World
Charming Opal
The New Friend
Wish You Were Here
The One and Only

On DVD:
Toot & Puddle: I'll be Home for Christmas

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