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40 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine
| October, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-0-545-63754-1$17.99
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A king (really a newborn baby) greets his loyal subjects (relatives and family friends). However, like any newborn, "your king also has many demands!" When King Baby outgrows his moniker, he worries about his subjects...until Queen Baby ensures the succession. The spare, humorous text is mostly from autocratic King Baby's point of view. Unlike King Baby, Beaton's hand-drawn, digitally completed illustrations are unfussy (ha!).
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2016
40 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine
| July, 2015
|
TradeISBN 978-0-545-63708-4$17.99
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K-3
Princess Pinecone, tired of receiving sweaters, requests a warrior horse for her birthday; instead she gets a tiny, googly-eyed pony. She's miffed until she realizes that her adversaries are powerless against its cuteness. Beaton's cartoony art wittily accommodates medieval and modern motifs, as when Pinecone ends up indulging her fellow warriors' "cuddly sides" by unloading some detested sweaters on them.