How Hot Was It? (Lobster Press) A boy tells of his activities and describes the intensity of the heat during a scorcher of a day. Throughout his account, he poses and answers the title question with cumulative rhyming responses such as “It was a muggy, sluggy, hair-teasing, air-squeezing, can’t-get-out-of-bed, both-legs-filled-with-lead kind of hot.” Jane Barclay’s descriptions create striking images. Illustrator Janice Donato succeeds in using expressions and positioning of characters to convey their reactions to the heat and its effects on them. mRb