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Ering, Timothy Basil

The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone

48 pp. | Candlewick | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-1382-7 $$16.99
(4) K-3 In drab Cementland, a boy searches for treasure and finds a box filled with seed packets. After thieves steal some of the seeds, the boy builds a scrap-heap monster named Frog Belly Rat Bone to protect his treasure. Cementland's Edenic transformation is a predictable end to a rambling story line, but the scrawled, hand-lettered text and scraggly illustrations suit the otherwise offbeat story.
Reviewer: Marika Hoe

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