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A frisky rabbit longs for snow as autumn is ending and leaves have piled up. "I wish it would snow." A mix of engaging illustrative vignettes and double-page spreads captures the joy and frustration once snow falls...too much snow, in fact. Minimal text, entertaining word bubbles, and energetic, clean-lined pictures express one bunny's exuberance for the season--including being snug inside.
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Nervous Violet and energetic Tigerlily eagerly start Acorn Scouts. In book one, their stern scoutmaster has the mice plant a garden for their "Sow It and Grow It" badge; next, the scouts earn their "Make a Difference" badge cleaning up the park and saving a cat. These sweetly humorous chapter books feature endearing characters and delightful grayscale illustrations. "Mouse Scout Handbook" inserts included. Review covers the following titles: Mouse Scouts and Mouse Scouts Make a Difference.
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Nervous Violet and energetic Tigerlily eagerly start Acorn Scouts. In book one, their stern scoutmaster has the mice plant a garden for their "Sow It and Grow It" badge; next, the scouts earn their "Make a Difference" badge cleaning up the park and saving a cat. These sweetly humorous chapter books feature endearing characters and delightful grayscale illustrations. "Mouse Scout Handbook" inserts included. Review covers the following titles: Mouse Scouts and Mouse Scouts Make a Difference.
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Mouse Scouts series.
Energetic Tigerlily, shy Violet, and the other Mouse Scouts work as a team to earn the "Camp Out" badge (and find their lost scout leader) on their first-ever camping expedition. Short chapters are interspersed with amusing illustrations and excerpts from the Mouse Scout Handbook. With sweet and funny characters, not-too-scary danger, and whimsical mouse inventions, this third installment will thrill series fans and newbies alike.
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Warren, "an ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill chicken," wants more out of life than pecking and peeping. He proves himself to be extraordinary when, with trusty sidekick Egg, he foils rat Millard's plan to barbeque the chickens. The plot itself is simple, but the compelling graphic-panel layout, witty speech-bubble dialogue, and clean-lined digital illustrations combine to make an engaging package overall.
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Chicken Warren (Extraordinary Warren) dreams of traveling to distant lands, but he and his protégé, the recently hatched Egg, don't know how to fly. When Egg miraculously flies the coop and ends up on the other side of the road, Warren must find him. With clean-lined digital illustrations and witty dialogue, Dillard uses perspective in her graphic-panel layout to great comic effect.
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On the first day of Zoo School, outgoing (and pushy) Amanda the panda decides that she and anxious Alfred the alligator will be best friends. Hurt feelings ensue when they don't see eye-to-eye: e.g., Amanda likes front-row seats, while Alfred likes to be "invisible." The comics-style format--word balloons and color-saturated pictures in frames--adds interest to a commonplace beginning-school story.
32 pp.
| Sterling
| March, 2009
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TradeISBN 978-1-4027-5954-3$14.95
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Arugula the hedgehog plans a perfect tea party. But when she welcomes every guest with a cautionary comment ("Be careful with that teapot, Basil! It's a valuable antique"), she has them all frozen with fear. After Fidget the squirrel crashes the party and breaks the ice--but not the teacups he juggles--Arugula lets her quills down. Both story and art are entertaining.