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Scillian, Devin

Memoirs of a Parrot

32 pp. | Sleeping Bear | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-962-1 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Bowers. "Wilbur's Pet Shop is closed today. Good." So begins ornery pet-shop parrot Brock's fifteen days of diary-like observations. After a guy purchases him, there's tension at home until the pair survives a near disaster together. Brock's subversion of parrot clichés ("'Polly want a cracker?' That is terrible grammar") is wryly amusing, while the cartoony art handles the more obvious laughs.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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