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32 pp.
| Gibbs Smith |
August, 2002 |
TradeISBN 1-58685-181-0$$15.95 1972, Harper
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Illustrated by
AnnMarie Infanger.
This new edition is a quirky fantasy about a boy whose family will not let him help as they work on fixing up a house in the country. Tony builds his own house, and it is so successful that the family moves into it instead. Readers will applaud Tony's solution to a perennial problem, but the new art, which features characters more stereotypically cute than individual, is not as engaging as the text.