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32 pp.
| Harcourt
| August, 1999
|
TradeISBN 0-15-201835-2$$16.00
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Polly Powell.
Miranda's entertaining counting rhyme describes how a monstrous number of playmates show up for a young monster's birthday party. When there are fifty of them, Mother Monster finally shoos them away until only one is left. The partygoers are sometimes difficult to count, but Powell appears to have had fun thinking up fifty different kinds of monsters for the bright illustrations.