Pizza is my favorite dinner, so I'm biased, but I really enjoyed this playful romp where a raccoon schemes to eat pizza in peace without having brooms swung at him.

Genre
Humorous stories
Picture books for children
Tone
Amusing
Subject
Parties
Pizza
Raccoons
Secrets

Raccoon and the paean to Pizza. Hilarious. ( )

The pictures make this book; the text isn't great, but the pictures of the pizza-loving raccoon make the text work. ( )

Pizza-lovers of all ages will empathize with "Poor Raccoon. All he wants in life is some pizza." But Raccoon is outside looking in. The first-person narrator suggests a secret pizza party, partly so that Raccoon won't be chased off with a broom, and partly because "When you make something secret, you make it special" (e.g. handshakes, staircases). Of course, even at the secret pizza party, where all the guests are masked, Raccoon can't play it cool - their enthusiasm bursts through. Uh-oh...

A goofy read-aloud. I'll take this book over the creators' more famous collaboration, Dragons Love Tacos, any day! ( )