Toby!

Toby!

by Cyndy Szekeres

Toby's boring day turns exciting and adventuresome when his mother suggests he exercise, jump, and sing with his toy dinosaurs.

Hardcover

First published June 1, 2000

About the author

Cyndy Szekeres (pronounced "zeck-er-es") is the daughter of a toolmaker, Stephen Szekeres, and his wife Anna Ceplousky Szekeres. In 1954, Szekeres earned a certificate from the Pratt Institute in New York. Szekeres has illustrated over 40 children's books, and is best known for her animal characters. She has also written or compiled and self-illustrated 67 titles. Szekeres won the AIGA Award for her work on Moon Mouse (1969). Szekeres currently lives on a farm in Vermont.

Reviews

[Lu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Automatically - I LOVE the illustrations. The mouse is cute. His bed of a sardine can and pencils - super cute. The matchstick and bottle top chair.

The story is okay. Basically - I'm bored - here's something to do - I'm tired. zzz.

I just like this book for the illustrations not the story.

[Gavin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gavin loves reading Toby books. From an adult perspective, the story for this one is not all that riveting (Toby gets bored and ultimately comes up with something to do), but the illustrations are darling. I think Gavin likes looking at the colorful pictures.