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36 pp.
| Chronicle |
March, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4521-3168-9$12.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Benjamin Chaud.
The author-illustrator team behind I Didn't Do My Homework Because... brings us another litany-of-excuses picture book, here a drawn-out explanation of why a child is late to school. There's humor in the nonsensical string of diversions, but there's not much transition from one to the next. Chaud's fine-lined cartoons contain lots of surreal, clever details (including a final twist behind the teacher's back).