The Horn Book Guide

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Perry, Andrea

Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe: Ingenious Inventions for Pesky Problems

40 pp. | Atheneum | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83067-X $$16.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Alan Snow. A dozen poems told in a nice variety of meters expound on the benefits of inventions such as the "Veggies Be Gone!" spray for shopping carts. There's also the "Stink Stoppers," who clean zoo animals, and "Crumbunny," who devours bed crumbs. Each creative invention is illustrated with pen and colored-ink drawings that feature cheerful-looking people and animals using the inspired machines.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke