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Riehle, Mary Ann McCabe

The Little Kids' Table

32 pp. | Sleeping Bear | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-913-3 $16.99

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Mary Reaves Uhles. A young narrator describes the perks of sitting at the kids' table at his grandmother's house and theorizes that adults secretly wish they could join the messy, vegetables-spurning, manners-flouting fun. While the rhymes show little regard for rhythm, the art, which frequently captures interestingly off-kilter perspectives, imparts the thrill of getting away with impertinent behavior at a sit-down family meal.

Reviewer: Nell Beram