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32 pp.
| Philomel |
May, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24756-9$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Britt Spencer.
Good-natured yokel Quantz gets fleas from a dog. He then trades them for a passerby's annoying uncle, whom he trades for some Limburger cheese, and so on, until he's left with what he thinks is a worthless bone. Told with a rural twang and illustrated with comical down-home mixed-media illustrations, the story stays one satisfying step ahead of readers to the end.