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Illustrated by
Melissa Sweet.
A raccoon doesn't want to help his mother do chores--until she convinces him that imagination can turn toy tidying into cattle herding, tooth brushing into lip synching, and so on. Young readers will respond to Mommy's resourcefulness as well as to the affection undergirding this book-length mother-son dialogue. The illustrations of both the mundane and the fantastic worlds teem with eye-catching details.