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32 pp.
| Holiday |
September, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1589-9$$16.95
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Illustrated by
Susan Winter.
A young girl demonstrates the things she could do with the physical or behavioral characteristics of the animals shown in the story's gentle watercolors. "If you had a tail / like a lizard's, / you could never / be caught / in a game of tag" (because her tail would snap off). Bauer's examples have child appeal, but she belabors the point that readers should feel special just as they are.