Review by C.J. Bunce
Borrowing a phrase and idea from the song The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, a new storybook is coming next week for children four to six years old, and it is exactly the book to get your little kids excited about the coming spring, and maybe take some outings into the woods. Poet Rachel Piercey and artist Freya Hartas have created a perfect picture book, If You Go Down to the Woods Today, a story from the Brown Bear Wood, a beautiful, over-sized book of wonderful images of cute animals experiencing exciting parts of the year that echo events in your child’s life. Its classic design and interactive story is certain to be the favorite book of someone you know. Take a look at some pages inside below.
takes putting a puppy in a man-made object to a completely different level. I recently finished the trade hardback that compiles all three individual issues of this series (written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely) as it tells the story of a dog, a cat and a rabbit outfitted with cybernetic exoskeletons that enables them to fight and battle with just about any enemy. (Editor – would that make them Aniborgs?)* Each animal brings its own specific skills to its cybernetic life and how the scientists created and augmented the animals draws out those natural abilities. To get feedback in both directions, the animals even have automated speech systems to translate thoughts into words. Their English communication is rudimentary, as you’d expect, but wonderfully written and the concerns of 
