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Ryan, Pam Munoz

Mud Is Cake

(4) PS Illustrated by David McPhail. Surrounded by friendly make-believe animals, a boy and girl appear in various fanciful settings, all accompanied by a metaphoric line ("Stick is wand / when you suppose / the magic it can cause"). Soft, almost fuzzy watercolors exemplify and add nostalgic touches to the text, whose effect is sometimes pleasantly metric and sometimes a beat or two off.

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