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Cleary, Daniel
2 Reviews
(3)
K-3
Balloon Toons series.
Uptight housecat Prickles demands that mouse Squeeky get rid of his friends--some dust bunnies who have taken up residence under the couch--before the "Big Cheese" comes home. There's lots of hilarity in the speech-bubble text (a bunny: "We're real. We're interesting. We're organic") and the art (the bunnies look like smudgy fingerprints with oversize humanlike eyeballs).
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(3)
K-3
A very grumpy Smudge has a private errand to run and doesn't want Piggie following him. Piggie persists, and soon all their friends tag along to buy, as it turns out, new underwear. The illustrations--doodles on looseleaf notebook pages--are a hoot, and the dialogue-bubble text gives personality to these simplest of pictures.
Reviewer: Rebecca Reed Whidden
2 reviews
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