Surf's Up: Paint Book Book

This is a very amusing tale; it's my favorite type of take off on old fairy tales: smart and laugh out loud funny.

The narrator of this story is the witty Libby Gaborchik, who just happens to be a fairy, a seemingly Jewish grandmother type fairy.

The prince to be is a bit scrawny. My favorite line in the book is not one of the many hilarious ones, which I also enjoyed, but a lovely line about this potential prince and his big heart: "The heart is a muscle too, you know."

I was so engrossed in the story that I didn't even notice every illustration as I first read. But the illustrations are terrific. The expressions on the faces of the people, and the rabbits too, are priceless. A few of the illustrations have humorous text within them. This would be a wonderful read aloud book, but only if all the text within the illustrations was also read and shown.

This story is a great deal of fun, one of those picture books that will be enjoyed by adults and older children at least as much as by younger children. I was entertained and I thank my Goodreads friend Abigail for alerting me to this book.