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K-3
Illustrated by
Ron Barrett.
In a companion to the nearly half-century-old Animals Should Definitely [cf4]Not[cf3] Wear Clothing., the Barretts present a gallery of elegantly--if hilariously--dressed animals. A horse in sneakers, a bear sporting a down coat, a turtleneck-wearing turtle: accompanying sober-sided text explains why the animal is better off without. The digitally colored pen-and-ink illustrations have a decorum that plays well with the silly, kid-pleasing concept.