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Deacon, Alexis

Cheese Belongs to You!

32 pp. | Candlewick | November, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6608-8 $$15.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Viviane Schwarz. According to "Rat Law," the cheese belongs to you--unless a quicker, stronger, scary, etc. rat wants it. Thus begins the cumulative tale of adjectives building to the "boss of the biggest, quickest, strongest, scariest, hairiest, dirtiest rats" who's in charge of the cheese. (Unless...) Humorous digitally colored red-pencil sketches of thieving white rats carry the tale in which manners ultimately prevail.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan