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24 pp.
| Running
| September, 2014
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TradeISBN 978-0-7624-5409-9$15.95
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Translated by William Rodarmor.
Illustrated by
Agnès Domergue.
"Mommy's mopping the floor. Everything sparkles. I mop, too, just like Mommy." But Mommy gets mad--"There's water everywhere!" This is just one example of Mommy's capacity to misunderstand her well-intentioned young daughter ("Can't she see?"). While the child's voice is inauthentic, her vulnerability is better conveyed in the illustrations, in which she's a doll-size child in a Mommy-scaled world.