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Ungerer, Tomi

Adelaide: The Flying Kangaroo

40 pp. | Phaidon | May, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7148-6083-1 $14.95
Reissue (1959, Harper)
(3) K-3 Kangaroo Adelaide, unaccountably born with wings, flies to Paris. She stars onstage; rescues children from a burning building; negotiates her kangaroo fiancé's freedom from the zoo; and ends with a pocketful of wee ones. Ungerer remains a master of suggestion: with marvelous skill, his agile pen embellishes the straightforward visual narrative, arrayed on spacious white, with a wealth of comical details.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long

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