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144 pp.
| Houghton |
January, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-84214-4$9.99 New ed. (1972)
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Eight snappy vignettes look at various familiar child predicaments: trying not to daydream in class, laughing so hard you can't even explain what's funny, being compared to a perfect-seeming child. The text is all dialogue, the illustrations are sketchlike, and both are spot-on with their child logic and humor. This edition's format is more novel-like than the "small and squarish" original.