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Paronuzzi, Fred

Babak the Beetle

32 pp. | North-South | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7358-4251-9 $14.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Andrée Prigent. After dung beetle Babak discovers a strange white "egg," he searches for its owner: "an egg needs to be sat on!" He decides to keep it after he spots the egg's "parents" (adult humans): they're "armed with long sticks" (golf clubs) and "hitting the eggs...through the air!" Fine-spun woodcutlike art amplifies the underlying humanity in this French import's perfectly executed gag.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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