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Bahrampour, Ali

Otto, the Story of a Mirror

32 pp. | Farrar | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-374-27078-3 $$16.00

(2) K-3 In this delightfully absurd tale, Otto, a hat store mirror, is dissatisfied and turns himself into a funhouse mirror, upsetting customers and his boss. He flees the store and is at last able to indulge his wanderlust. He meets the mirror of his dreams, and it is a fitting--and touching--end to the antics that of the "many wonderful things" the mirrors reflect, none is more satisfying than "look[ing] at each other, reflecting back and forth...forever and ever and ever."

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2003