PICTURE BOOKS
Wynne-Jones, Tim

The Boat in the Tree

(4) K-3 Illustrated by John Shelley. "The day Mom and Dad went to pick up my new brother, I built a raft." Imaginary sailing trips help the narrator cope with his new sibling. The fact that the new brother is an adopted older child is at first pointlessly obfuscated, but once readers catch on, they'll be won over by the story. The illustrations switch between fantastical and real-life tableaux.

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