Three by the Sea - Tapa dura

"Grey, one of the more inventive picture-book creators working these days, offers a beguiling little parable."
Booklist
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2011:
"Grey s wonderfully expressive, richly textured mixed-media collages leap and bound with funny details (like the "All-Purpose Flakes" box in the kitchen, perfect for both baking and bathing). Vivacious design elements such as comic-strip like panels for action sequences and cut strips of type for the dialogue in the climactic fight add further fun. The clear, clever text rendered in a large font is as fresh and invigorating as the rest."

-Grey, one of the more inventive picture-book creators working these days, offers a beguiling little parable.-
--Booklist
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2011:
-Grey's wonderfully expressive, richly textured mixed-media collages leap and bound with funny details (like the -All-Purpose Flakes- box in the kitchen, perfect for both baking and bathing). Vivacious design elements such as comic-strip-like panels for action sequences and cut strips of type for the dialogue in the climactic fight add further fun. The clear, clever text--rendered in a large font--is as fresh and invigorating as the rest.-

Three friends, Dog, Cat, and Mouse, live happily—or so they think—in their beach hut by the sea until one night a mysterious Stranger, bearing gifts from the Winds of Change Trading Company, blows into their little world and turns it upside down. Soon Dog, Cat, and Mouse are fighting with each other. Is the foxy Stranger a troublemaker or does he mean well? And will Dog, Cat, and Mouse ever be happy again?

Children will find this thought-provoking picture book of true friendship from award-winning Mini Grey, author of Traction Man Is Here! and Traction Man Meets Turbodog, deeply satifying, a story they'll want to hear—and discuss—again and again.