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PRESCHOOL

Curato, Mike

Little Elliot, Big City

40 pp. | Holt | August, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-9825-9 $16.99

(2) PS It's hard being small for diminutive, polka-dotted elephant Elliot (all the more amusingly incongruous in a 1930s-esque New York). When Elliot can't be seen over the bakery counter, he and an even-smaller mouse team up to purchase a cupcake. Children will relate to Elliot's experiences, e.g., reaching for the too-high doorknob. Pencil and Photoshop illustrations have a muted effect befitting the old-fashioned setting.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2014