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Dimity Dumpty: The Story of Humpty's Little Sister
40 pp.
| Candlewick |
February, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-3078-2$15.99
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K-3
Egg Dimity, "shy and timid as a field mouse," lives in an egg-carton caravan with her more outgoing circus-acrobat family. When her troublemaker brother, Humpty, takes his well-documented fall (while spray-painting his name on a wall), reticent Dimity finds her voice and rescues him. Graham's fancifully detailed watercolor and ink illustrations are the main attraction of this rather diffuse tale.