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32 pp.
| Houghton |
October, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-56819-8$12.99
|
PaperISBN 978-0-544-52858-1$3.99 New ed. (1998)
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K-3Green Light Readers series.
In Help, frog Joe's enthusiastic assistance is well meaning but the illustrations tell another story. In Lunch, originally published as a picture book, Joe's restaurant manners are abysmal and send his parents running to a froggie version of McDonalds. The simple rhyming texts are accessible if dull; it's the loose-lined watercolors that jazz things up.