Customer Reviews

Carl's Masquerade

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This is one of my favorites as each time I take it out it makes me smile. Carl takes baby out and "follows" mom and dad to a masquerade party. How amusing when Carl and baby meet up with an "identical" costume match at the party! Just footsteps behind the parents they partake of food and festivities and then it is time to leave and safely arrive back home. Mom and dad linger at store windows "allowing" the careful babysitter to take his charge back to bed. Some reviewers believe Day's books set bad examples, but I totally disagree. All antics are in fun and mischief.

This is a charming addition to the Carl series. Again, Carl is the super nanny, this time on party night. Very few words accompany the action which unfolds with wonderful illustrations. The author and artist, Alexandra Day, got some of her costume ideas from an old French book. Baby and Carl have another great adventure with the parents none the wiser. Even though this book is geared to the very young. My granddaughter chose to look at it again and again even when she started school. This is one of my favorites that was purchased on Amazon.com.

If you are a dog lover then you and your kids will enjoy the Carl series. I grew up with these and am so excited to be able to pass them on to my son. They now have a collection of stories in a book called You're a Good Dog Carl. I purchased both. Also, if you like this book you might a try a book called Tuesday by David Wiesner. This is a fantastic book too.

Nothing like a "Carl" book to read and look at the amazing artwork with those small grandchildren. Just enough words to hold the little one's interest, but not too many for him/her to become restless and bored.

My one year old loves to just look and look and look at the pictures. We love Carl.

All of Alexandra Day's Good Dog Carl books are wonderful books to share with children, but this one is my favorite.

Very inventive & clever. These were written for the parents as well as the child.

This has become my daughter's favorite Carl book, because it features the appearance of Daddy!

It's a lot of fun; the pictures as always are colorful and so evocative that words really aren't necessary. The costumes featured throughout the book are great, and we like that there are children in costume at the party as well. There are even some visual jokes!

There were a couple of places where I wished a scene had been cut to one image rather than two, or that a transition scene had been expanded, but all in all it is a fantastic addition to the Carl series.

My girls, 6 and 18 months love Carl. Carl's Masquerade is full of vibrant and fun pictures, which creativily carry you through another 'Carl and baby adventure'. Carl and baby wait until mom and dad leave for a masquerade party then sneek out following from a distance to join the party themselves. This book tells itself through the pictures, allowing the reader to make up the words of their own story line...So wonderful to not have to read the same words five times a day...or until you hide the book from the kids! Any young imagination will love this and other Carl books. My daughter first 'phrase' was "good dog carl". Which, Good Dog Carl was the first of the carl books we bought. She read it so much we had to buy a new copy because the first wore out! Happy reading!Good Dog, Carl : A Classic Board BookCarl's Masquerade (Carl)

All of the Carl books are great, but this one is a little confusing for the children, at least my three-year-olds. Maybe the idea of people dressing up like other people or things is more complicated in and of itself.