"Brroms Are for Flying", "Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea" and "Dinner at Magritte's"

An eclectic selection for hot days.

Brooms Are for Flying
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Rex

This is a fun Halloween book. The text invites a young person to join in on the fun.
The illustrations are filled with friendly monsters. Are they really monsters? Find out when you get to masks.

Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Gail Gibbons

The illustrations take the reader into a submersible and down into the sea. Each layer is introduced as light gradually disappears until there is only darkness.
What lives in this water world of cold, little light and tremendous pressure? They are strange.
This is a good book to pique interest in the oceans.

Dinner at Magritte's
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Garland

Magritte was a surrealist painter. In this story a young neighbor boy visits and so explores the world of surrealist painting.
Every illustration requires careful exploring to see what is really in it.