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Bird and Squirrel (Bird & Squirrel on the Edge!, et al.) are finally home, but something's awry: a giant beaver dam has siphoned all the water! When the forest is accidentally set ablaze at a party, the heroes take quick action (though some hungry rats don't make it easy). The drama unfurls in well-delineated full-color panels in the slapstick duo's latest graphic novel.
32 pp.
| Disney/Hyperion
| April, 2016
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TradeISBN 978-1-4847-2523-8$16.99
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Piglet siblings share a fuzzy green blanket. Their alternating declarations of love for it soon escalate into competition, with their beloved blanket paying the consequences. Have no fear--their blanket and relationship are soon mended. With cheery illustrations, sparse dialogue, and some wordless double-page spreads, this book has lots of young-audience appeal.
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Fearless Bird and whiny, fretful Squirrel must cross the Great Mountains to get home. Wolves preying on a bear cub interrupt their trip, though, and Bird's head-bump from a wayward pinecone causes things to go even more awry. This early graphic novel is funny, colorful, and energetic; new readers will root for the unlikely friends to outmatch the forest villains.
32 pp.
| Carolrhoda
| March, 2012
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TradeISBN 978-0-7613-6567-9$16.95
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After goat Bah finds a stray sock on the ground, robot Beep--whose endearing witlessness recalls SpongeBob SquarePants--resolves to find its match. The serviceable comics-style layouts show the friends' slapstick-y encounters with animals they meet on their journey through an otherwise unpopulated futuristic world. A final "gotcha!" panel shows that the matching sock has been with them all along.