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32 pp.
| Peachtree |
September, 2001 |
TradeISBN 1-56145-246-7$$15.95
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Illustrated by
Kerry Argent.
Full-page watercolors display four barnyard parents' surprise as they enter pens and nests to tuck in their energetic children but find another's offspring. The jokesters' gleeful expressions change to chastened then to sleepy, but the little ones still find age-old ways to delay bedtime. Human parents and children will chuckle at the final delaying tactic of the piglets: "We have to wee, wee, wee!"