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Chapin, Tom , Forster, John

The Backwards Birthday Party

40 pp. | Atheneum | February, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-6798-9 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4424-6800-3
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Chuck Groenink. On backwards birthday party day (i.e., opposite day), "the ice cream was hot. / The candles were not." The narrator doesn't mind: he's partying with friends from his all-animal guest list. The refrain makes obvious that the text is really song lyrics, but this doesn't wreck the party. Groenink finds the balance between spotlighting the mayhem and maintaining eye-pleasing order. Sheet music included.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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