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24 pp.
| Holiday |
August, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-3040-6$14.95
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K-3I Like to Read series.
Very short sentences describe tasks of different working animals, including donkeys, oxen, and elephants. The lack of parallel structure and some uneven repetition is rather disorienting in an easy reader with so little text. Pencil and watercolor illustrations featuring many settings (world map appended) add a strong element of multiculturalism; final spreads show a boy and his friendly pet cat.