• NEA Children's Top 100 Book List
• ALA Notable Book ALA Booklist Editors' Choice
• NCTE Notable Trade Book in the Language Arts
• NY Public Library Selected Annual List
• Colorado Children's Book Award
• Kentucky Bluegrass Children's Book Award
• Kansas Reading Assoc. Bill Martin Jr. Book Award
• Vermont Red Clover Children's Book Award
 • Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Award
• Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Award
• Florida Reading Association Honor Book
• Nebraska Golden Sower Honor Book
• Ohio Buckeye Award Nominee
• Washington Children's Choice Award Nominee
• California Young Readers' Medal Nominee
• Wyoming Buckaroo Award Nominee
• Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee
• NY Daily News CitySmarts

"Ghoulish details in text and art do give this a Halloween feel, but the sibling rivalry has year-round relevance--and the laughs, of course, are seasonless. - Booklist

"The paintings offer varying perspectives, close-ups, bright rich colors, and grossly humorous details. The large pictures spill over from one page to the next and even the text is highlighted with colorful onomatopoeic outbursts." - School Library Journal

2000-2001 Volunteer State Book award nominee
2000-2001 Wyoming ‘Buckaroo’ award nominee

• Book Sense 76 Pick

"Fine's gouache-and-watercolor illustrations add a great deal of humor and appeal. Facial expressions convey the sailors' delight or dismay without detracting from their dinosaur essence. The pictures have plenty of amusing touches, such as the bandanna-wearing, eye-patched stegosaurus and the brachiosaurus with a life jacket and neck ring." School Library Journal

" Fine's playful, colorful dinosaurs are remarkably expressive and full of child appeal." School Library Journal

• Winner of the 2006 Michigan Reads! One State, One Preschool Book Award
• Winner of the 2005-2006 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award
• Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" Picture Book, 2004
• 2006-2007 Missouri Show Me Readers Book Award Nominee
• 2006 Missouri Building Block Award Nominee

"Outrageous puns, sly references, and wonderfully exaggerated pastels are just the ticket from the team behind Zoom Broom... Fine's luxurious palette and angled perspectives add to the broad humor." Kirkus

and the Thousand-Pound Catfish

"...Fine's energetic, acrylic paintings feature skewed perspectives, striking landscapes, eccentric portraits bursting from portholes, 19th-century characters whose red-cheeked faces and white teeth look carved from wood, and even a spectacular close-up of Steamboat Annie's bare foot." Publishers Weekly

"...the larger-than-life characters explode into life thanks to Fine's wonderfully expressive, detailed paintings." Booklist

"...Kuskin obviously knows her subjects well, as does Fine, who matches the author's true-to-life description of their fights with wonderful "cat's-eye view" pastel illustrations. His inventive manipulation of perspective accompanies the creatures as they leap incessantly from upstairs to downstairs. The front and back cover illustrations are particularly effective as viewers' eyes move from the large downstairs cat in the foreground, to the second story of the house where the upstairs cat sits on the windowsill..." School Library Journal

• IRA Children's Choice
• Irma S. & James H. Black Award

"Vivid watercolor-and-pastel illustrations by Fine, previously teamed with Palatini for Piggie Pie!, feature exaggerated close-ups and skewed perspectives, adding a frenzied quality to this snowballing pig-out." Publishers Weekly

"Playful illustrations expand the lighthearted mood of the story. Fine's use of blues, greens, and light makes nighttime scenes almost as bright as the white of the raccoons' markings, and such objects as the metal trash cans shine with reflected moonlight." School Library Journal

"School Library Journal : "illustrator of...PIGGIE PIE! again struts his imaginative stuff...mishmash of fiends...a fine refrain for story hour participation...mischievous romp" School Library Journal

"Double-page gouache scenes provide visual interpretations of the offerings and sometimes add a touch of innuendo" School Library Journal

"This irrepressibly jolly book presents five Christmas songs, illustrated with pictures of pigs festively dressed and comically relishing their roles in the action. The first half of the book offers Fine's rollicking illustrations interpreting "The Twelve Days of Christmas": "four calling birds" squawk into cellular phones and the "five golden rings" appear to be fried onion rings. "Up on the Housetop," "Jingle Bells," "Deck the Halls," and "We Wish You a Piggie Christmas" are given shorter but equally spirited treatment in the broad, double-page spreads. Observant children will be rewarded with funny details throughout this amusing book..." Booklist