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Ahlberg, Allan

The Little Cat Baby

32 pp. | Dial | June, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-3012-8 $$10.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A couple goes to the Baby Shop and selects not a human but a cat baby that they grow to adore. Set in an earlier (and weirder) time, this small-scale book offers big rewards, including its winking narration, surreal details (the Baby Shop features a robot baby), and meticulous illustrations suggesting a cross between Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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