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PRESCHOOL

Doyle, Malachy

One, Two, Three O'Leary

32 pp. | McElderry | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-85513-3 $15.95

(2) PS Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. Seventeen Irish playground rhymes for calling someone out are gathered here in a tale about the O'Learys and their ten children. Hillenbrand depicts the family as bouncy and jolly, with bright colors against white backgrounds. The premise of the book is quite ambitious (a story told completely in nonsense rhymes), but the pictures tie the disconnected rhymes together, telling a lively bedtime story.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2005