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32 pp.
| Harcourt/Gulliver
| October, 2002
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TradeISBN 0-15-216376-X$$15.00
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In flowing verse interspersed with the refrain "I want to play like a windy day," a little girl imagines all of the ways that she would play if she were the wind ("I want to shake the dew from a spider's web / and help her babies soar"). In the digitally colored art, in which waves of color drift evocatively across the page, the imaginative artists pair our frolicking "real" narrator with her personified wind playmate.
32 pp.
| Harcourt/Gulliver
| April, 2001
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TradeISBN 0-15-202257-0$$15.00
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When a rubber ducky falls into the river, Baby Duck thinks it's real and invites it to go exploring with him. The two reach the sea, but a child scoops up the rubber ducky, leaving Baby Duck to figure out how to get home on his own. Baby Duck's adventures are told with delightful, subtle humor in both the text and illustrations.