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Morales, Yuyi

Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book

40 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | October, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-329-8 $17.95
(2) K-3 Ghost Zelmiro reminds dapper skeleton Señor Calavera that he forgot a gift for Grandma Beetle's birthday. Calavera quickly gathers presents, ("Dientes...Una Escalera"), which get ruined. All ends well: in a sweetly surreal conclusion, "Grandpa Zelmiro" materializes. Morales's full-bleed art, in brilliant sunset hues, portrays an amiable, dreamlike world where weightless, comfortably rounded figures swirl joyously among a creative assemblage of gifts.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2009

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