{"id":46267,"date":"2026-04-02T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=46267"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:44:24","slug":"review-of-nevilles-great-escape-by-sean-e-avery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=46267","title":{"rendered":"Review of Neville’s Great Escape, by Sean E. Avery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Neville’s Great Escape<\/em><\/p>\n

by Sean E. Avery<\/p>\n

Walker Books, 2026. 32 pages.
\nReview written February 20, 2026, from a library book.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Neville’s Great Escape<\/em> is a follow-up to Frank’s Red Hat<\/em>, which is about a penguin who is different than other penguins because he starts wearing a red hat.<\/p>\n

I think the main reason I never reviewed Frank’s Red Hat<\/em> when it came out was that the image on the page that showed what happened when Neville tried the red hat was simply too terrifying. I couldn’t laugh my way past it. Poor Neville!<\/p>\n

Well, that image from Frank’s Red Hat<\/em> is exactly the image on the cover of Neville’s Great Escape<\/em> – a giant killer whale looming over Neville, about to swallow him whole.<\/p>\n

Hooray! Neville escapes! It’s right in the title! Now I can feel free to love both<\/em> books.<\/p>\n

So – this picture book is the story of how the penguin Neville escapes from the inside of a whale’s mouth.<\/p>\n

His method is implausible and silly, involving lots of inexplicable furniture – but it’s also a lot of fun. Neville lives!<\/p>\n

And he’s not eaten yet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Neville’s Great Escape by Sean E. Avery Walker Books, 2026. 32 pages. Review written February 20, 2026, from a library book. Starred Review Neville’s Great Escape is a follow-up to Frank’s Red Hat, which is about a penguin who is different than other penguins because he starts wearing a red hat. I think the main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46381,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46267\/revisions\/46381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}