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Lavoie, Mathieu

Toto's Apple

64 pp. | Phaidon | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-07148-7251-3 $17.95
(3) K-3 Hungry worm Toto spends this book attempting to figure out how to retrieve an apple from a tree: he tries hitching a ride on a bird, painting butterfly wings to fly, etc. Like the flat gouache art, the early-reader-reminiscent sentences are deceptively simple and hilariously deadpan, especially when the story takes an unexpectedly dark turn: a child eats the apple, and "Toto is devastated."
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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