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Bateman, Teresa

The Princesses Have a Ball

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lynne Cravath. When a king notices that his twelve daughters' shoes are in tatters, cobbler Jack discovers that the princesses spend their nights playing basketball. So Jack "design[s] a shoe / with a rubber sole" and encourages the princesses to come clean to their dad. In this inspired and sturdy update, Bateman's bouncing, bounding rhymes are taut and economical, and Cravath's cartoony images contain witty modern details.

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