My grandson absolutely loved this book. I found it a bit too cutesy and the rhyming a bit forced, but it was not written for adults. Otto is a cute environmentally aware otter, who wants to clean up his pond. It is full of trash caused by unthinking humans. Once he starts his job he realizes that he needs to work fast to save his friends who are in trouble. He rescues various critters such as a crusty shelled clam, a bristled nose rat, and a warty coot newt. He works hard to return his pond back to its natural state.

The story is told in a rhyming form that does not always have an easy flow.. The illustrations are adorable and well done adding much to the story. They are done in a cartoon format which my grandson really liked. The book teaches children the importance of conserving their planet, thus saving the creatures that live here. It is the second book in the Rubbish Rebellion Series. We had a great discussion about what we can do to help the environment and he had many suggestions. This is a wonderful book for family, school and classroom libraries. A wonderful story for primary classrooms when learning about the environment and how to help it. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book upon request. The rating, ideas and opinions shared are my own.

This is a cute book to help bring awareness of pollution to children. Kids will like the sing-song rhyming of the story and the illustrations are super cute!

This inspiring rhyming book features an adorable enviornmenally conscious otter who is on a mission to rescue his litter-laden world. His pond is filled with trash and rubble caused by reckless, uncaring humans.

"Full of bottle tops, flip-flops,
paddle pops and table tops,
lollipops, soda pops,
and even a toy triceratops!"

Oh my! Otto is disgusted with the litter that keeps growing in his pond and realizes his friends need help too. Otto morphs into a superhero fighting the cause of pollution in his pond.

He rescues a crusty shelled clam, a bristled nose rat, a wiry old snake, a whistling duck, a warty coot newt, and a fingernail snail, just to name a few. With determination and a lot of hard work he transforms his precious pond back to its natural state. Hurray for Otto and his brave efforts to meet the crisis head-on! He thoughtfully and methodically collects the rogue trash and drops it into a human garbage can where it belonged in the first place. Great plan Otto! It's a winning strategy.

The book teaches children the importance of conserving their planet and the creatures that live here. It is book number 2 in the Rubbish Rebellion Series. The illustrations are so well executed and beautiful. They enrich the storyline greatly and resemble an animated cartoon. Kudos to the artist... she nailed it. I wish she had been acknowledged on the cover along with the author. She so deserves recognition for her wonderful work. The book's message is a call to action encouraging kids ( and adults ) to be good stewards of their world.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This was a cute book but would have been much better without all the repetition and rhyming. The kids lost interest while reading. Recommend for ages 4-6.

The second book by Chez Rafter that I read this month comes in the form of <i>Otto the Otter's Muddy Puddle</i>. An adorably illustrated children's book with an incredibly similar message; pollution is harmful toward animals. Of Rafter's books raising awareness about the problems of pollution, Otto's story was the better of the two. Not only did the book feature a much cuter creature as its protagonist, but the illustrations were more appealing and the rhyming in the story was much better.

The story begins with a sad Otto Otter sitting within the very dirty and polluted water of what was once his very clean pond home. It follows a short list of all the nasty things that people have decided to toss into his habitat alongside rather emotional depictions of his sadness as a result. In fact, you get a little look into that with the cover itself. But Otto Otter isn't the sort of guy who just sits back and lets his world become decimated. Otto does something about it.

And so the story follows his work to clean up the pond, helping out all the creatures who live there with him. Helping his neighbors happens to be his primary motivation. And he wears a sad smile as he goes about helping everyone. It's this sad smile that really gets me. You see, Otto is hopeful. He knows that he can work to improve everyone's situation. But his face shows quite clearly that he is sad he has to help in the first place. And I love that about this children's book <i>so much</i>.

The ending of Otto's story was perfect. The sad smile turns much happier and the final page of the book is nothing short of brilliant. It sends the message against pollution exceptionally. I loved every bit of it.

<i>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

Another fabulous installment from this author and the importance of picking up your litter to throw it away properly. An amazing message for little one's and the illustrations are beautiful.

This is an awesome kids book that raises awareness about pollution and littering and how it affects our wildlife. I loved the pictures and how it rhymes! Otto the Other was such a cute character kids will love. This is definitely a must have book to teach kids about litter!

This is the second book in this series. I just read the first one, and thought it had a number of issues. Unfortunately, this book simply magnifies those, making it a rather tedious read.

It's as if the author's trying to throw as many rhyming words as possible at the reader. As a result, the text doesn't flow. It almost sounds like terrible slam poetry:

A crusty shelled clam
needed a hand when her wandering clan
found holes in her dam.
She was in a jam, they were on the lam!

Like in Yapper the Unhappy Snapper, the main character also goes around saving his friends, often wielding a pair of scissors. In the previous book, the mess was plausible. In this book, it's not (unless Australians are a bunch of dirty pigs who just dump their trash wherever they feel like it). Multiple opened cans of beef stew, a table, and flip-flops in the park's pond? Really?

These books just aren't for me. Very young children might enjoy them, but I feel sorry for the parents who will have to read them aloud.

My six-year-old really liked this book! This is such a cute little story with great illustrations! As you follow Otto through the story, he has to rescue his animal friends from problems caused by littering. So it’s also a good chance to talk to kids about littering and how it can hurt animals and the Earth.

Very adorable book with a great message to children. The cover is quite adorable and the rhymes are sweet.
I really appreciated Rafter's message in this book. She shows the harms of pollution from the perspective of wetland creatures and brings it to a child's understanding.

Otto the Otter helps his friends out of sticky situations, such as a pig stuck in a fishing line or other animals stuck in trash. I definitely will be buying this book to read to my boys, and also will check out Rafter's other books.

Otto the Otter's Muddy Puddle is a fabulous children's book. I wish this book has been out when my child was small. A good book for class rooms.

Cute fun story about how water animals have to deal with trash. Great lesson for young children to be careful where you throw your trash.

A second book for me in this series of eco-conscious rhymed tales. Otto the Otter is living in a perfectly decent place with perfectly decent friends – but the perfectly horrid humans have left a whole pile of crap behind, meaning each and every friend our hero might want to play with is stuck, dirty or caught trapped by something. Once more the moral is blatant, but not too heavy-handed, and once more the illustrations are top-notch. But again I find the nearest thing to a flaw in the author's poetry, which loses some of the tricks of the other book I've read of hers, but in trying to cram as many internal rhymes into the short pages almost gets up to a rap pace before stopping again. There might well be a better way of presenting the text to your young child, but I've had experience of reading aloud for the past forty-odd years and I didn't find this as easy to convey as it should be. A shame, for the lesson of the book is too great to be lost on a technicality like that.

3,5 STARS

When I first saw the cover and the blurb for this story I knew I had to read it. The illustrations are so cute and lovely that they make the story a bit more fun to read, since the story itself is about pullution awareness. I'm so glad the author chose to write this story, since pollution really is a global problem. And I think that the author also chose a smart way to explain this problem to the young generations. I mean, who doesn't like to read about cute animals and how they make our planet better.
That being said, I've recently reviewed another children's book and I found the writing style in the previous story a bit better, in regards to the rimes and content of the story, therefore I couldn't give this book a higher rating. That's just my personal preference and I'm sure many would disagree with me on that perspective. Especially kids, since they probably wouldn't even care about things such as this. As long as they like the story, that's in the end really all that matters.