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40 pp.
| HarperCollins
| May, 2003
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TradeISBN 0-06-029028-5$$15.99
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LibraryISBN 0-06-029029-3$$16.89
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Illustrated by
Michael Grejniec.
De Regniers's jaunty text, first published in a 1958 collection, responds to the titular question with a cumulative series of delights (e.g., ice cream, mashed potatoes, "funny finny fingers! / spinky spanky handkerchief!"), one for each day of the week. Grejniec's finger-paint-style images star a white, insouciant, long-necked, foxlike creature and enough "fluppy gluppy" goo to keep preschoolers chanting along merrily.
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Illustrated by
Michael Grejniec.
This newly illustrated picture book, with its galloping rhythm and carefree take on familiar events, is as fresh as a report on this week's kindergarten trip. In the watercolor illustrations, rendered in bright colors on textured paper for a bold, collage-like effect, the animals arrive in a creatively mixed flurry that's nicely matched to the precisely cadenced text. The art is at once sophisticated and childlike.