Book Review: Adventures with Andy and Susie

Published by Noble Point April 4, 2016

The story is narrated by Susie, the cat and is told from her point of view as she follows Andy. She gets excited when he comes home from school and they begin their adventure. Unfortunately, things get difficult when he makes a bad decision and then a storm hits and the two of them are lost in the woods in the middle of a big storm.

The illustrations in this book are so fun! You can see samples of the art work at the author's website. Also, as a fan of steam punk, I was so excited when I realized this is a children's picture book done in steam punk. It's not really obvious in the text, but in the illustrations it is very obvious. The school bus flies through the air with sails and a friend of Andy's has a steam powered wheel chair. It's really very cool.

I give this book 4 stars. ****

Author/Illustrator, Donna Hall was born in Los Angeles, California where her father owned an aircraft parts manufacturing plant. She later moved to Northwest Arkansas and grew-up on a farm where she had lots of different animals for her friends. Donna graduated from the local schools then went on to attend the University of Arkansas majoring in the Fine Arts. After raising two children, Donna decided to go back to school in 2002. She attended the Brookhaven College in Dallas, majoring in Art History. While maintaining a 4 pt, she received multiple awards for her work in oil painting. One of her works remains on permanent exhibit as "Outstanding Quality and Variety of the Artists from all over Texas".

To learn more about Donna Hall, check out her web page: http://www.artistdonnahall.com/

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.