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38 pp.
| HarperCollins/Cotler |
September, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-06-027484-0$$14.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Roz Chast.
With his patched jeans and backward baseball cap, Walter appears to be a typical boy--except that he has a group of imaginary friends at his beck and call, including Homework Helper, the Thing Finder, and the Lima Bean Man, who eats Walter's beans for him. The text and color pictures are amusing, but not quite clever enough to sustain the one-joke book.