Richard Scarry's characters are so appealing. In this title, Lowly and Huckle have various adventures such as going to a carnival, going to the beach, Lowly breaks his foot (? tail??), Lowly has a birthday, etc. This is a picture-book sized title, but contains several discrete stories so you could break it up and just tell a couple if you're doing it as a bedtime story. The text is somewhat small, there's a lot of it, and there are 3-4 small scenes drawn per page or sometimes an overarching two-page spread that has lots of detaily little elements to look at, as typical of Scarry's Busytown style. ( )