A Mighty Fine Time Machine [Paperback]

How can you turn an empty box into a time machine? Samantha, an anteater, helps her friends Grant, an aardvark, and Antoine, an armadillo, add a bunch of thingamabobs and hoozie-doozies to create a spiffy but still not-working time machine. Then she comes up with the perfect idea: Put it in a wagon and add books. The mighty fine time machine becomes the best do-it-yourself bookmobile anyone could ever imagine! And it works! A splendid use for a box, indeed. —Kirkus Reviews

The language is replete with words such as 'hoozie-doozies,' and 'doodads.' It rolls off the tongue with occasional poetic segments such as 'Flippers flapped. Wings whapped.' The unusual characters' devotion to each other and their project is an asset to the book. —Library Media Connection

Children who have ever created anything out of a box will identify with the trio's ingenuity. The colored pencil-and-gouache illustrations add warmth and humor to the story. —BooklistSuzanne Bloomis the author and illustrator of the Goose and Bear series, which includes:A Splendid Friend, Indeed, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book;Treasure;What About Bear?; andFox Forgets. Her other books includeFeeding Friendsies,No Place for a Pig, and the popularThe Bus for Us. She lives with her family in McDonough, New York.CN