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Entries Tagged as 'Alliteration'

Please Don’t Tease Tootsie

November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By ANDREA ZOLLMAN Illustrator Margaret Chamberlain’s first solo picture book introduces the youngest of children to the dos and don’ts of pet care.  She gives general advice to her readers such as “Don’t madden Mutley,” while in the picture a girl stands on a footstool and holds a cake out of poor Mutley’s reach. Chamberlain [...]

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Animalia

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base treats readers to a remarkably captivating alphabet book.  Each letter is represented with an alliterative phrase about a featured animal.  Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the detailed pictures contain not only illustrations related to the animals described but that there are also depictions of [...]

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Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR In this story by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Fosdyke is different from his siblings. Rather than wanting to go out hunting each night like they do, he likes to cook French food. Each evening, as the other foxes head out for a night of carnivorous hunting, he whips up delicacies that they [...]

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Berenstains' A Book

November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Stan and Jan Berenstain‘s silly book introduces readers to words that begin with A by following a trail of ants “across an apple and an acorn, across an apricot, an ax, and an angleworm” … all the way to an anteater and an anthill.  The anteater is busy tying on a [...]

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