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Illustrated by
Henry Cole.
"'A-a-a-a-choo!' goes the warthog. Slop goes the soup....Wobble goes the birdcage. Crash goes Uncle Fred." Two warthogs preparing for a dinner party have a few onomatopoetic mishaps but keep in good spirits ("Giggle! Giggle!"). Some of the pattern doesn't work or isn't onomatopoeia, but the high-energy pen, colored pencil, and watercolor art against a white background is effective.