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32 pp.
| Candlewick
| June, 2015
|
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-7561-5$14.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Cat Chapman.
Best friends Yak, who has a kayak, and Gnu, who has a canoe, rejoice that "there's nobody else / like me and you" on the water...or so they think. The nimble-witted art shows the water gradually overrun with creatures in this silly book-length exercise in rhyming the names of boats with animals ("And a herd of giraffes / on hovercrafts!").
32 pp.
| Candlewick
| May, 2014
|
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-6782-5$14.99
(3)
PS
Illustrated by
Cat Chapman.
A teddy bear taking a walk in the jungle is confronted by a frog, who laments that his underpants have been stolen. Together they search for the missing skivvies until they find the unlikely underpants-coveting thieves. The rhymes are beat-perfect, the ending soars, and the ink and watercolor illustrations are pure grace and dignity--even when depicting the star-spangled undies.