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Kurzweil, Allen

Leon and the Spitting Image

307 pp. | Greenwillow | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-06-053930-5 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-06-053931-3 $$16.89
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Bret Bertholf. Miss Hagmeyer, a fanatic believer in the virtue of sewing, assigns her fourth-grade students the task of making cloth animiles, the medieval variant of animals. Leon, already branded as lacking fine motor skills by previous teachers, may never make it to fifth grade. An outrageous plot involves Leon's animile, a Miss Hagmeyer look-alike, coming alive and causing havoc in school. Kurzweil's over-the-top approach is dead-on funny.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2004

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