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32 pp.
| Winslow
| April, 2000
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TradeISBN 1-890817-20-1$$16.95
(4)
K-3
Tobias, the gardener's son, devises a plan to free a caged quig, an exotic bird that longs to live in the nearby rumplenut tree, which depends on the bird to spread its nuts. The text and illustration styles owe a large debt to Dr. Seuss--the jaunty but overlong verse employs inventive rhymes and a swift rhythm, and the watercolors bustle with color and movement.