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32 pp.
| Peachtree |
March, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-1-56145-818-9$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Thomas Gonzalez.
One rainy March night, a girl and her mother and grandmother, donning slickers and rain boots, head to a busy city street to see something special: the yearly migration of toads in Philadelphia's Roxborough neighborhood to a reservoir to mate and lay eggs. Glistening, photorealistic mixed-media illustrations set the perfect milieu for this unique annual urban phenomenon. An author's note lends additional context.