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K-3
Illustrated by
Dan Pinto.
Hedgehug the hedgehog inadvertently destroys every Halloween costume he attempts to wear. What isn't clear to the reader until book's end--when a self-satisfied Hedgehug ingeniously wears green, which, combined with his quills, makes him resemble a cactus--is that his spikes were what wrecked his earlier costumes; Pinto doesn't make the quills visible in the otherwise satisfying, textured illustrations.
40 pp.
| HarperCollins/Harper
| December, 2011
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-196101-4$9.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Dan Pinto.
Ready to find a sweetheart on Valentine's Day, a hedgehog goes looking for someone to hug. Unfortunately, the other animals reject him because his prickles make hugging painful. Then Hannah the armadillo, who's impervious to prickles, writes him a note, "I like your spikes," and he gets his hug at last. Textured illustrations in vivid colors complete this brief, amusing, adult-geared story.