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32 pp.
| Running |
September, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-7624-2046-4$15.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Julia Woolf.
Billy Bob is a gum-chewer who has "one tiny trouble, / for try as he might he could not blow a bubble." Practice makes more than perfect, as Billy blows a bubble so big he floats away. Smith stretches for some rhymes, but Woolf's round, friendly, bubblicious illustrations (most notably a wordless double-page explosion of pink gooiness) are chuckle-worthy.