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Dodds, Dayle Ann

Henry's Amazing Machine

32 pp. | Farrar/Kroupa | August, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32953-2 $$16.50

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker. Henry, who loves "putting things together," builds an Amazing Machine that takes over the house. His doting parents ask, "But, Henry, what does it do?" Henry replies, "Do?...I haven't a clue." The high-spirited, wacky text and collage pictures build rhythmically, and soon the whole town gets involved with Henry's runaway invention. The story concludes on a surprising carnivalesque note.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004