Not one of my favorites.  The pictures are bright and cheerful, and kids who are familiar with other Hot Rod Hamster books may enjoy it, but it’s one of those books that seems to sacrifice story for the sake of keeping the vocabulary and format in the target range for early readers: the result is that the story is a bit flat.  It tells of a day at a water park for Hot Rod Hamster and his friends, getting ice pops, choosing floaties, racing on the water slides. There just doesn’t seem to be any climax or purpose.