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Vásquez, Paula
3 Reviews
(3)
PS
"This is NOT a rooster / it is an alarm clock" is illustrated with a rooster cock-a-doodle-dooing on an elephant's back. "This is NOT an elephant / it is a shower" shows the elephant spraying a shower-capped kangaroo. Readers will smile as six additional animals in nursery-soft shapes and colors work until playtime: "This is NOT a BOOK / it is a...PARTY."
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(3)
PS
"Who do you want to be like when you grow up?" Various animal students all pick traits of their parents to emulate. Johnny, a yellow bird, doesn't look like his parents (the collage-like illustrations show they're pigs), but he nevertheless wants to "wallow in the mud like mom," etc. This warm celebration of diverse family structures concludes with the students' "family drawings."
Reviewer: Kari Allen
(4)
K-3
Lili Wool, an expressive lamb, likes to use her imagination...to the consternation of her herd. She finds a thread of wool and, holding it aloft, dances across the landscape using it in a gymnastics routine, to lasso "bad guys," etc. Unfortunately, the thread strips wool from an annoyed sheep. The slight tale is sharply illustrated in muted colors with simple black lines.
Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty
3 reviews
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