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32 pp.
| Putnam |
March, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24298-4$14.99
(3)
K-3
"Daddy, if I got taken by pirates, would you save me?" So begins this father-son fantasy, in which a little boy keeps raising the stakes (what about "robot gorilla pirates from Mars?") and Daddy rises to every imagined challenge. The cartoony art plays the fantasy to the hilt, but Rex keeps this dad, with his tie and bald pate, real.