Reviews for Huggly's big mess

The average rating for Huggly's big mess based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-21 00:00:00 Floyd Allen I enjoy the absurdity of this book. It is wonderful. A girl wants to make an apple pie and her local market is closed and so she does what anyone would do. She gets a boat to Europe to collect the ingredients from the source. Did you know that cinnamon is grow from a kurundu tree? I didn't. The best kurundu is grown in Sri Lanka. This girl travels with a chicken and a cow she picks up, you know, for freshness. Then she makes everything from scratch. That is some industriousness right there. As I said, this silly story amused me. I'm not sure how to describe the art. Maybe it's a little surreal and a little impression. It's ok and it does fit the nature of the story. There is an apple pie recipe at the back of the book and the niece wanted to make it. The kids thought this was funny. The nephew especially liked the part of the parachuting animals and girl at one point. They gave this 3 stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-06 00:00:00 Sharon Queen 4.5 stars. Okay, so I'm not sure why, but I loved this book!!! It is sooo cute! The illustrations are grand, and I love the idea of going all over the world to find ingredients for good ol' apple pie. I think I just really found the illustrations to my taste, and I love travel books, so this is perfect for me. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is probably overly-critical of me, but I wondered if the girl is paying for all the things she takes (um, just taking a cow from an English countryside???). I think it is implied whens he invites her friends from around the world to enjoy the pie with her at the end of the story, but just might be better for kids to have it spelled out--that is, that one shouldn't simply go picking apples from an orchard, and our heroine actually pays for what she takes.