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32 pp.
| Farrar |
April, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-374-35120-5$16.00
(4)
K-3
A little boy sings the praises of his "cool" older brother ("My brother stands up to bullies, and sits down on monsters") until the book's last pages: appearing for the first time, the narrator--a scaled-down dead ringer for his older sib--announces, "I'm cool, too!" The text has bounce and the art vigor, but readers may, justifiably, want more.