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Siegel, Randy

My Snake Blake

32 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | June, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-584-1 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Serge Bloch. The narrator's father gives him a pet snake as a gift, but it's not just any snake. It spells words with its body, including this droll bit of advice for the narrator's mom: "relax." The book's second half--a laundry list of the snake's virtues--fizzles. More successful is the spot-colored black-and-white art, which favorably recalls Jules Feiffer's work.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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