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32 pp.
| Clarion |
October, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-81988-4$16.99
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Polly Dunbar.
With this latest nonsense-verse offering, Mahy places herself right up there with the nineteenth-century masters of the form, Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The quirky exuberance of Dunbar's playful watercolor illustrations is a perfect match for Mahy's verse; they show two young children reveling in a zany visit from a man they themselves created as a larger-than-life painting that flew off the page.