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Anaya, Rudolfo

Roadrunner's Dance

32 pp. | Hyperion | August, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0254-5 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-7868-2209-0 $$16.49
(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Diaz. Rattlesnake is terrorizing everyone who uses "his" road, so Desert Woman gets the community's animals to collaborate on creating a nemesis for the snake--a bird--comprising their individual attributes (Deer offers two thin branches as nimble legs, etc.). The story is anticlimactic (predictably, Roadrunner trounces Rattlesnake) and its Stone Soup-like message familiar, but the illustrations rendered in a brilliant Southwestern palette are perfect for the tale's milieu.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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