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32 pp.
| Clarion |
May, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-618-31367-2$$13.00
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Illustrated by
Doug Cushman.
A group of mice celebrate Independence Day with a parade, a picnic, a ball game, sack races, a dip in a pond, and, of course, sparklers and fireworks. The energetic watercolors capture the holiday spirit better than the lackluster rhyming text, which--with lines like "Munch, munch, / crunch, crunch, crunch"--relies too heavily on repeated words and onomatopoeia.