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K-3
Illustrated by
Elise Parsley.
Here, the magic word isn't please, it's Alakazoomba, as Paxton C. Heymeyer summons the cookie that his babysitter won't let him have. Parsley's cartoony digital art (littered with Paxton's increasingly outlandish embellishments to his home) suits Barnett's characteristically humorous, child-centered text to a T. A subversive take on the topic of manners that still manages to deliver a message about human decency.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2016