A Snow Day for Plum! by Matt Phelan
ISBN: 0063079208
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Sequel to Leave It To Plum! This book finds six animals from the Athensville Zoo in a van on the way to a school visit in the middle of a snow storm. Plum the peacock is nervous about the visit, but when they arrive, they find that the children have been sent home for the day. Plum is relieved but his anxiety returns when he learns that due to severity of the weather, the animals will spend the night in the gym while zookeeper Lizzy stays at a nearby inn. When classroom pet mice show up to open the cages and set the zoo animals free to roam the school, the gang splits up to explore.  Talents are discovered, fears are confronted, an exiled class pet is reunited with his teacher, and the myrna bird speaks up for the first time to enact a rescue of animals in trouble.

With short chapters, copious pen-and-ink illustrations, and lots of action from the wandering crew of animal characters, this series will appeal to early chapter book readers. More titles in the series would be welcome.

Reviewed by Jill O’Connor, Falmouth Middle School