It's an Orange Aardvark! by Michael Hall - ADVISABLE

Hall, Michael  It’s an Orange Aardvark!  Greenwillow Books, 2014  $17.99  PICTURE BOOK  Content: G.  

Five carpenter ants hear something outside their tree stump, so they decide to drill a hole and look outside.  They see the color orange and assume it is an orange aardvark (even though they thought aardvarks were grey).  They keep drilling holes in an attempt to see what is going on outside, and uncover different bright colors.  They assume all the different colors that they see are part of the aardvark-maybe he’s wearing pajamas or is holding ketchup.  Eventually four of the carpenter ants decide that it is a beautiful rainbow, but the fifth ant is still imagining that it is an aardvark.  

This is a cute book that teaches the colors of the rainbows inadvertently.  The illustrations are cute and the readers like to look through the holes to see what is on the other side of the tree stump-whether it is true or imagined.  

EL (K-3)-ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.