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40 pp.
| Simon |
March, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-2715-0$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Igor Oleynikov.
After Mahalia Mouse gets trapped in a Harvard student's backpack, she matriculates and takes the college by storm. Based on a commencement speech by Lithgow, many of the rhymes ("students" with "imprudence"; "family lost" with "holocaust") will go over the heads of the picture-book set. The muted mixed-media illustrations likewise feature grown-up humor. Includes a CD of the story read by Lithgow.