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Shearer, Alex Kenyon, Tony, Illustrator

The Summer Sisters and the Dance Disaster

(3) 4-6 Oddball weather merchants provide the focus for these two light comedic fantasies, illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches. The occasional Briticism (e.g., pounds for dollars, football for soccer) won't prevent readers from enjoying the foibles of a wind salesman with an out-of-control typhoon in his barn and three siblings whose botched sun dance produces a seemingly irreversible eclipse.

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