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32 pp.
| Whitman
| September, 2015
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8075-7901-5$16.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Pistacchio.
Three pig brothers making their way in the world encounter various fairy-tale characters who offer them house-building materials (a Pinocchio-like boy has six sticks, a Humpty-like egg has eight bags of leaves, etc.). This amiable counting lesson could do without the muddying introduction to cylinders, cones, and cubes, but the sleek art, featuring nostalgia-baiting Golden Book–style motifs, is sensational.