Utterly Otterly Night - Mary Casanova/Ard Hoyt

Few creatures can compete with the otter for unabashed cuteness. With exuberant pen-and-ink drawings (Ard Hoyt) and lively onomatopoeic text (Mary Casanova), this sequel of sorts to “Utterly Otterly Day”

shows the otter at its most appealing. The otters encounter a rabbit, a moose towers, and five wolves. But in the end, “all is right / on a friskily, whiskily, / whooshily, shooshily, / icily, ­dicily, / frightfully, delightfully, / utterly otterly night.”

This book will bring a smile to your face and warm your heart on a cold winter evening.