PICTURE BOOKS
Schmid, Paul

A Pet for Petunia

(3) K-3 Petunia has a toy skunk, but she "wants, wants, wants!" a real one. Despite her promises that she'll feed and walk it, her parents refuse. Miffed, she leaves home, and in some nearby woods encounters a skunk--and "A humongous stink!" Schmid's take on the kid-craves-a-pet tale is amusing, and his spare drawings, punctuated with purple and occasional dashes of orangey-brown, are eye-catching.

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