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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
November, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-3958-7$16.99
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
André Amstutz.
With a winsome lilt, Ahlberg describes a boy who "caught a Baby / In his Hat" as she was falling from a window. After years of adventures at sea, he comes home to London to find that same baby--now a pretty face, and soon to be his bride. The story is handsomely visualized and intriguingly extended by Amstutz's sweeping gouache illustrations.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2009