@kirsten-mcg I think overall you have a really dynamic composition with a good use of foreground elements! However, there are some perspectival problems with the image that make things seem "odd" or "off" to the viewer, even if they may not be able to put their finger on it.
Firstly, I agree with Stephanie and Angelina about the stove being slightly warped and the vanishing point way too close to the stove. It should be moved further away, out of the scene to the left. Also contributing to it feeling warped is the fact that the bottom edge does not line up with the top edge of the table, probably because you were free-handing the line - I would still suggest using straight-edges to guide your initial sketch even if you make the line work more organic in the final rendering - I don't think you need to worry about correct perspective making a work look stiff if your render the finished piece well.
I'm not sure if you did this in the process of coming up with this sketch but I'd also highly recommend "drawing through" your canvas. This will allow you to more accurately judge whether your postures and perspective (eg. placement of the VPs) are correct. I have a lot of trouble too drawing scenes in correct perspective when characters are cropped and I don't draw through, and I usually find I can resolve my problems when I draw through and draw the characters fully, then establish correct perspectival relationships before cropping the sketch.
Which brings me to the more subtle but perhaps bigger perspectival problem of the piece - which is that the table at the front is really tall in relation to the table at the back and the giraffe characters! How can you tell? By projecting the height of the front table to the same plane as the back table:
Now this seems odd to me, as intuitively I thought what you wanted to convey in this scene is that little Dino is a kid trying to steal cookies on the table while the adults (giraffes) are busy preparing food, and I'd expect little dino to be tiptoeing to reach up a table about the same height as the one the adults are using. (Of course if you were actually planning for the front table to be much taller, you can ignore this piece of critique)
If I project little Dino's height to the same plane as tall giraffe, it actually seems that he's not that much of a kid after all! - He's about the same height as the shorter giraffe and only slightly shorter than tall giraffe. Again, given the nature of the story as I intuitively grokked it, that seems odd to me. (Notice also that I "drew through" dino's entire body so I can project his full height to the horizon)
I do hope this makes sense!
