Perfect, written by Max Amato, reviewed by Klaudia Janek

Student Reviewer: Carley H.
Summary: This book is about a stubborn eraser who just wants the page to be clean and free of pencil lines and smudges. A troublesome pencil keeps adding more and more lines to the page for the eraser to erase and all of a sudden the pencil draws so much that the eraser feels defeated and doesn't know how to erase all the pencil marks that were made. Then the eraser figures out how to escape all of the pencil lines and smudges and makes the page clean again. Once he is alone without the pencil making any lines and nothing to erase, he realizes he would rather be together with the pencil.

Straight Talk for Librarians: The book has big font with little words on the pages with big pictures covering the entire page which would attract young readers. I think the characters in the book are funny. The eraser learns that everything does not always have to be perfect. That sometimes messy is fun. The illustrator used pencil and eraser to make a lot of the pages, along with photos of a pencil and eraser. Readers will laugh out loud when the eraser erasing some of the pencil’s drawings. The pencil is a little sassy. This book is a good choice for independent reading. The book could be a good choice to feature on a back to school display. Some of the pages don’t have words so it could be a good choice for reluctant and emerging readers. The images tell a lot of the story. The expression on the characters faces convey a lot of emotion so it could set the stage for a good discussion on feelings. This book would be a good choice for an elementary school library.