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40 pp.
| HarperCollins/Harper
| February, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-236396-1$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Stephen Shaskan.
After skunk friends and bandmates Kit and Buzz fight over what to sing, they cease to rock together and are miserable. The novelty of punk-rock-playing skunks in a kids' book is undercut by the workmanlike plotting and too-easy resolution. The cartoonish digital art--featuring punky skunks sporting combat boots, leather jackets, and neon-striped Mohawks--plays up the genre's cheesiness.