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Grubman, Bonnie

Oy Vey! Life in a Shoe

32 pp. | Behrman/Apples & Honey | August, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68115-515-9 $17.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Dave Mottram. Grubman riffs on the Jewish folktale about the overcrowded house (à la Zemach's It Could Always Be Worse) and "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." The clever retelling mostly works, but some of the rhymes are a stretch. Energetic cartoon illustrations show thirteen children, two parents, and farm animals bouncing off the walls--of the shoe.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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