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32 pp.
| Little |
April, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-316-20334-0$16.99
(3)
K-3
This nearly wordless picture book--set up, through introductory and concluding letters, as a book a grandmother has made for her granddaughter--chronicles the life (and several near-deaths) of Gem, a toad living near a country farmhouse. Hobbie's gentle, elegant pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations end with a curious farm girl capturing but happily releasing Gem back into his garden home.