EASY READERS
Gravel, Elise

Adopt a Glurb

(4) K-3 Balloon Toons series. This is a tongue-in-cheek book-length plug for a tiny fictitious creature resembling a black jack-o'-lantern with pointy ears and stick limbs--imagine an Uglydoll set in Sunday comics–style layouts. Sentence by sentence, the narrative is quirky and amusing ("Give your glurbs a chick pea and they'll play soccer"), but collectively, the welter of attributes add up to little.

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