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32 pp.
| Raven Tree
| September, 2009
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TradeISBN 978-1-934960-62-2$16.95
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PaperISBN 978-1-934960-63-9$7.95
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K-3
Hugo gets caught up in a series of adventures while running an errand for his mother. On a quest for soap, he returns home caked in mud and needing a bath (enter: soap). An occasional effort is made to translate the embedded Spanish words in the story. The cheerful and colorful exaggerated illustrations are somewhat more successful than the text. Glos.