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32 pp.
| Doubleday |
June, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-385-32275-5$$15.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Michael Chesworth.
Although Mama says she doesn't want any birthday fuss, her daughter, a "take-charge kind of girl," plans a party with her slapdash aunt CeeCee and her nitpicking aunt Belle. Hilarious chaos reigns right up to the last minute when Daddy arrives with a very surprised Mama. Art nouveau style illustrations, using dialogue balloons, set the story in the roaring twenties.