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Laden, Nina

Clowns on Vacation

32 pp. | Walker | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8780-0 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8781-9 $$17.85
(4) K-3 A circus announcer spends this book asking questions about a clown family's vacation ("Do they pay lots of rent / Or sleep in a tent?"). The erratically rhyming text, with only casual meter, soon grows tiresome, but the gouache and photomontage illustrations are engaging and filled with sight gags, such as an image of the clown car, waylaid by an overturned glue truck, beside the question, "Are they stuck in traffic?"
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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