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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
February, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-0783-5$$15.99
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Paul Howard.
Here's a head-spinning collection of tales begun and interrupted and begun all over again for which Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman--which also featured inventively interacting folktale characters--were merely jumping-off points. This is radical change at its most lighthearted, silly best, with the seemingly short attention spans of the interrupted stories belying the detail and interconnectedness of the book design, the illustrations, and the stories themselves.