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K-3
Illustrated by
David Catrow.
After a trip to the zoo a boy wakes up to a world populated by animals. Some of the creatures replacing the school staff will cause extra chuckles: bugs in the computer room; worms in the library books; a bat in the nurse's office. In the illustrations, wacky animals swarm across the pages, enhancing the chaos described in the rhyming text.