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Martin, Bill, Jr.

A Beasty Story

40 pp. | Harcourt/Silver Whistle | August, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201683-X $$16.00
(3) PS Illustrated by Steven Kellogg. Four mice find a beast "in a dark, dark wood" but quickly discover that it is only a mechanical monster created by their friends. The rhyming text alternates between helping the slightly eerie story progress and silly asides about the colors the mice see around them. These side comments keep the story geared to toddlers who long to be scared but not too scared.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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