Pinky and Rex: Ready-To-Read Level 3

Description: Pinky has 27 stuffed animals and Rex has 27 dinosaurs. They have everything the same, and that's the way it should be with best friends. So what do they do when there's only one pink dinosaur in the museum gift shop--and they both want it? Full color.

Brief description: Melissa Sweet has illustrated more than eighty children's books, including the Caldecott Honor books The Right Word and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams both written by Jen Bryant. She also wrote and illustrated Tupelo Rides the Rails; Carmine: A Little More Red, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book; and Balloons Over Broadway, a picture book biography that was named a 2011 Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Picture Book. When she is not in her studio, Melissa can be found taking an art class, hiking with her dogs, or riding her bicycle. She lives with her family in Rockport, Maine.

Review Quotes: "The Horn Book" The characters are appealing and human, and the colorful illustrations are filled with action and detail...showing the gentle warmth of the stories.