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Winthrop, Elizabeth

The Red-Hot Rattoons

212 pp. | Holt | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-7229-2 $$15.95
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. A family of rat children follow in their late parents' musical footsteps, forming a tap-dancing act and going above ground to the glamorous but dangerous world of the humans. Winthrop stays true to the rat perspective, offering commentary on human smells and behavior, but some of the jokes will be lost on a child audience unfamiliar with the jazz culture of the 1930s.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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