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Hobbie, Holly

Gem

32 pp. | Little | April, 2012 | Trade ISBN 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.
Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

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