Review: Superbly Written! Fabulously Illustrated! 5 STARS!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
OVER THE FENCE is such a cute story with a brilliant collaboration between writing and illustration. We read the story several times back to back with our daughter. The hidden content is noteworthy.  We found ourselves cluing in on nuances not previously recognized.  The stickers on the wooden crate were nice little details.  Curiosity flared upon noticing the flag stickers from the USA, China, France, Canada, Austria, Italy and Macedonia. Brilliant!  The rhymes flow nicely. The idea of the character named Albert setting up a guessing stand was creative. This story has so much to offer young children.  The story requires children to use basic deductive reasoning to solve the mystery. We've read many children's books throughout our child's early learning years and many were fun and cute, this story however, is extra special in that the child is introduced to thinking on their own, requiring them  to reason and deduce.  Aristotle would likely be very proud of the author's use of some very basic principles of logic.  We enthusiastically recommend this Peter Collier Children's story!