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76 pp.
| Candlewick |
January, 2018 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-8935-3$15.99
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Hyperactive Benjamin "Bug" Blonksy has a creative imagination...and a penchant for chaos. He comically narrates his frenzied school day, with each brief vignette named for the "don'ts" he's forced to list while "in the quiet chair" (e.g., "DON'T ask Ms. Munster 'Is Uranus the Biggest?'"). Bug has a strong, zippy voice, but Redmond's irreverent pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations are the book's true goofy highlight.