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32 pp.
| Cavendish
| March, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-0-7614-5686-5$12.99 New ed. (1990, Children's)
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Colleen M. Madden.
In each of thirteen spreads, a boy describes his ostensibly benign behavior ("On the bus, I just stood up to see the fire truck"), which is reality-checked by an adult on the scene ("What if everybody did that?"). Madden's new illustrations effectively provide the faux-tragicomic visuals (e.g., the school bus tilts to one side) in this eye-opening case for personal responsibility.