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Day, Nancy Raines , Day, Nancy Raines

Double Those Wheels

32 pp. | Dutton | July, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-525-46853-6 $$15.99

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Haskamp & Steve Haskamp. Monkey sets out to deliver pizza to a party. Doubling the number of wheels each time, he upgrades his vehicles from a unicycle to a bicycle to a car, ending up with a sixty-four wheel train. Though it occasionally falters, the simple rhyming text is enhanced by the lively illustrations, which extend the story with humorous details. Even the pre-math set will cheer the arrival of the still-hot pizza at the party.

Reviewer: Rebecca Reed Whidden