From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day the Crayons Quit comes a whodunnit just right for the youngest of readers (not to mention instructions for how to build the perfect paper airplane!) The animals? homes are disappearing. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. Clues! There must be clues. For instance, look--there is a mysterious bear carrying an ax! But what would a bear want with so many trees? Perhaps the discarded paper airplanes littering the forest floor have a story to tell? Oliver Jeffers' quirky, childlike humor and lovable illustrations are in full effect in this funny whodunit featuring a winning cast of animals and a message about the importance of conservation and recycling.   Kindergarten-Grade 3—There's something amiss in the forest, as branches are mysteriously disappearing. At first, the animal friends accuse one another but when alibis pan out, they realize that they have a thief on their hands. Setting out to solve the mystery, they discover that the bear has been stealing branches and making them into not-very-good paper airplanes for a competition. After a short trial, he confesses and agrees to replant the trees he has destroyed, and the other critters help him reuse the wasted paper to create a prizewinning entry. Managed forestry is the theme of this book that features folk-art-style animals with funny little stick legs. The mixed-media illustrations nicely complement the spare yet eloquent text. Though this clever title may need hand-selling to readers, teachers will welcome it for lessons on the environment.— Angela J. Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Bridgetown, NS, Canada Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The denizens of the forest notice that something is amiss. Tree branches that were there the day before are gone, and worse—some trees aren’t there at all. They all blame each other, but each turns out to have an alibi. So together they launch a full-bore investigation, which consists of pretty much getting nowhere. Until, that is, they discover a paper airplane with telltale bear prints that lead them to the culprit. Turns out the bear just wanted to win a paper-airplane contest so bad he had run out of paper perfecting his model and cut down the trees to make more. The artwork, clean and simple and inviting, is the highlight, with adorably offbeat critters and subtle visual jokes, a few of which younger readers may not catch on to (the pig’s alibi is that he was busy making bacon at the time), but most will garner a share of grins. True, there isn’t much of a message—aside from not wasting paper—but it’s funny and charming and weird, with little giggles to be found again and again. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Ian Chipman Jeffers's illustrations are meticulously designed, from the characters' expressive eyeballs and stick-figure legs to the use of negative space and the way the text interacts with the artwork. --Kirkus Reviews The mixed-media illustrations nicely complement the spare yet eloquent text...teachers will welcome it for lessons on the environment. --School Library Journal [F]unny and charming...with little giggles to be found again and again. -- Booklist   Oliver Jeffers (www.oliverjeffersworld.com) makes art and tells stories. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found , which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children’s Book Prize Gold Award in the U.K. and was later adapted into an award-winning animated film; The Way Back Home; The Incredible Book Eating Boy; The Great Paper Caper; The Heart and the Bottle , which was made into a highly acclaimed iPad application narrated by Helena Bonham Carter; Up and Down, the New York Times bestselling Stuck; The Hueys in the New Sweater, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year; and This Moose Belongs to Me,  a New York Times bestseller. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oliver now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.