The illustrations are too adorable. I love the little bird flying back and forth between the intrepid explorers and the yeti. My favourite illustration is of the grizzly bear trying to eat the explorers when the yeti interrupts him mid-lick! The grizzly bear in general cracks me up, crawling around on his belly. Cute, happy ending. ( )

A darling story told via letters from two boys hunting for a yeti. Various adventures occur - baskets of berries staving off hunger, cold nights in a snow cave, grizzly bear encounter, footprint tracking. ( )

exploring, woods, night, scary - simple picture book ( )

DEAR YETI by James Kwan is an adorable picture book featuring a pair of young hikers on a quest to find a mythical creature.

A small, blue bird delivers letters from the hikers to the yeti trying to convince the creature to show itself. Along the way, the yeti helps the children by leaving them berries, building a snow shelter, and saving them from a bear. In the end, they form a friendship.

The large, informal font and epistolary form will be attractive to young readers. The illustrator’s use of a red dotted line to follow the bird’s flight will appeal to young adventurers.

Librarians will find this story of a friendly, helpful monster to be popular with primary-aged children. The story would also be a fun way to introduce letter writing.

Learn more about the author/illustrator at http://www.james-kwan.com/.

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan on November 3, 2015. ( )

Read on November 22, 2015

A cute idea about two little hikers hunting for a yeti, but the execution didn't work for me. At the beginning its letters to the yeti, but at the end the hikers are talking to each other and sometimes it was tricky to figure out who was talking. ( )