![]() Engaging, mischevious, never ever dull, and topped off by illustrations by Marla Frazee, Pennypacker's early chapter book, "Clementine", is everything you could hope for in a story for kids. I mean, how am I supposed to resist that? What we have here is one of the most amusing characters to grace the pages of children's literature in years. ![]() Sorry, Sara, but how could I help it? We're dealing with a book where if the infant brother of the main character says, "Go for a wok?" to her, he's referring to a game in which she puts him in the family's wok and spins him around real fast. I blame Sara Pennypacker personally for the fact that what was once a lovely little ARC is now a dog-eared-to-death series of bound pages. So to stop myself from this habit I've only been dog-earing the Advanced Readers Copies of books I review. If ANYONE knows not to dog-ear pages it should be me. If I'm reading a children's book (which, 19 out of 20 times is usually the case) and I hit on a passage that I think is especially amusing, I'll dog-ear the page. ![]()
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