Publisher's Weekly Review

"The moon was full," writes Harkness (Bug Zoo). The moon also looks like it's slathered in cream cheese icing--one of the many visual delights in this book created entirely from images of dimensionally modeled clay. The title character is a blue monster with spindly arms and legs, a triangular head and wild orange eyes, and a mouth that seems made for chomping rabbits, who peer up from hiding places in a landscape that puts off a spooky Wallace and Gromit vibe. "Rabbits, rabbits where are you?" the hungry Wolfboy demands as he stands atop a "creaky" oak in a forbidding forest, and jumps between the edges of a craggy ravine overhung with eerie clouds. But while Wolfboy sure seems like an incorrigible predator--one spread frames the long-eared rabbits through enormous teeth--the menace evaporates once the bunnies appear bearing a pie filled with moonberries. Turns out they're actually good buddies who are used to Wolfboy's hangry moods. It may be a shaggy-dog story, but the anticlimactic ending doesn't disappoint--readers will feel like they have a front-row seat to a marvelously imagined and sculpted toy theater. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 3--6. Agent: Adah Nuchi and Rena Rossner, the Deborah Harris Agency. (Feb.)