Hazel Nut and Wally Nut's playtime roll down a muddy hill turns into a hilarious chase when they get covered in so much muck that they get bigger... and bigger... until they're big as ELEPHANTS! Can anyone help get the Nuts back down to size? Eric Litwin offers an upbeat and inspiring message: What do you do when you roll into trouble? Keep rolling!

Hazel and Wally Nut, whose adventures began in author Eric Litwin and illustrator Scott Magoon's The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House, and then continued in The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants, return for their third sing-song adventure here. Wanting to be big, the two nuts begin to roll, picking up mud along the way and growing ever larger, until the rain reduces them to their original size. Fortunately though, they have what they really need, in their loving family...

Although The Nuts: Keep Rolling! is the third in this picture-book series, and although I usually like to read the books in a series in order, I ended up starting with this one, picking it up without realizing initially that it was part of a longer series. Litwin is the author of the first four Pete the Cat books, as well as the Groovy Joe series, so I recognized his name. It's possible that this one would work better in conjunction with the song and dance, which can be downloaded, but overall I didn't have a positive impression. The artwork was cute - as could be expected of Magoon - but the text was unimpressive. Mileage varies, of course, so if you have a young child who enjoyed other Litwin ventures, perhaps you should give this one a try. ( )