Molly, Olive, and Dexter play hide-and-seek /

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Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner introduces readers to a trio of animal friends in a warmly humorous story offering reassurance that true friends don't stray far.

Meet Molly the hare, Olive the owl, and Dexter the fox, three friends who live near the oak tree at the edge of the meadow. Hide-and-seek is Molly's favorite game, but things aren't going her way. For starters, Olive and Dexter don't seem to know the rules. And when Molly shows her friends how to play properly, they hide a little too well. Set in a delicately rendered pastoral world of soft color and shimmering line, here is a picture book that tackles outsize toddler emotions with sensitivity and whimsy. Make way for the singular Molly, Olive, and Dexter--ready or not, here they come!

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Kirkus Book Review

A game leads to misunderstanding for a woodland trio. Molly the hare's favorite game is hide-and-seek. She lives by an oak tree at the edge of a meadow with her friends Olive the owl and Dexter the fox. One day she initiates a game without first telling the others the rules, and mishaps ensue--first the pair "hide" by covering their eyes. After Molly clarifies that they need to conceal themselves from her, Olive and Dexter go to the other side of the tree. Molly finds them right away, and she complains that they need to do a better job hiding. Eventually, Olive and Dexter hide too well to be found. Distressed at the loss of her friends, Molly searches high and low to no avail, bemoaning her loneliness. When the pals are at last reunited, Olive and Dexter reassure Molly that they'll never really leave her, and they all settle in for a nap. Rayner's prose is illustrated with lightly abstracted mixed-media illustrations in a soft spring palette, and the animals are stylized but not anthropomorphized. The disagreements among friends are all gentle and easily sorted out, and this sleepily paced tale soon comes to a comforting close. (This book was reviewed digitally.) A lighthearted look at conflict resolution. (Picture book. 3-5) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982. She studied at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2009 for Harris Finds his Feet, and has been shortlisted in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015. In 2014, Norris, The Bear Who Shared was named by The Sunday Times as one of the 100 Children's Modern Classics of the past ten years.

(Bowker Author Biography)