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K-3
Illustrated by
Tracey Campbell Pearson.
After Mr. Gilbert's students get a class guinea pig, they request a companion for him; sure enough, the animals multiply--and then some. The wind-scattered look of the illustrations is just right in this spirited, big-hearted frolic. A couple of page-top number lines unobtrusively invite reflection on the story's counting concepts.