The Moonlight Meeting: The Nocturnals

It's hard to find good books for the transition between picture books and chapter books. This is one of the good ones. There are full color pictures on every page. The chapters are short.

The characters are relatable - a shy pangolin, a dramatic sugar glider, and a calm “big sis” fox. I liked reading Bismark's dialog aloud. I have no idea if these three really live in the same areas but that's a good launching point for library research. There's a brief description of each animal on the last pages, and my daughter pretended to snore at those, though she perked up at the bit about pomelos so it couldn't be too bad!

Unfortunately all the other books related to these characters currently are real chapter books, the kind my daughter refuses to go near. Hopefully more are published at this level. Regardless we'll see these critters again in a few years.

Full disclosure: I got this book free from a Goodreads giveaway.