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Sullivan, Mary

Ball

32 pp. | Houghton | April, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-75936-4 $12.99
(4) K-3 Readers follow an expressive dog through cartoon-paneled pages with one-word-on-repeat speech bubbles as it looks for someone to play with after the little girl leaves for school; when the pup falls asleep, the illustrations show a dream sequence of wild ball-centric adventures. It's unsurprisingly one-note, but Sullivan conveys a remarkable amount through punctuation (ball? BALL!) and her digitally colored pencil drawings.
Reviewer: Kari Allen

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