Silent Night by Robert B. Parker with Helen Brann

Silent Night by Robert B. Parker with Helen Brann--229 pages

This is another in the Spencer series.  An eleven year old street kid named Slide comes to Spencer for help in finding out who is threatening an unlicensed homeless shelter.  This was an unfinished manuscript that was completed by Parker's agent, Helen Brann.  Although it was a fun, quick read, it was not Robert Parker. 

The Deep Deep Puddle, by Mary Jessie Parker

 The Deep Deep Puddle, by Mary Jessie Parker, 40 pages

I was not a fan of this picture book.  So, it's sort of a counting book, and increasingly larger numbers of items/things/people keep falling into this deep deep puddle; but I kept thinking, are they drowning?  Am I supposed to suspend my disbelief about their abilities to survive underwater for these great lengths of time?  Did the taxis fall on the people in the puddle- are they laying at the bottom, being crushed?  Are the cats eating the squirrels?  What's going on down there?  Far too ambiguous.