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32 pp.
| Candlewick/Templar
| July, 2012
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TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5563-1$15.99
(4)
K-3
When a new overpass means fewer customers for their food-truck business, Jack's mom sends the boy to buy coffee beans ("Everybody likes a good cup of coffee"); what happens next in this well-told revision to a classic fairy tale is disappointingly bereft of conflict. Meanwhile, the digitally rendered art is stunning, offering surreal dreamscapes set in circa-1950s America.