STARTED & FINISHED:

Shulevitz, Uri. (1969). Rain rain rivers. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Slobodkin, Louis. (1959). Trick or treat. New York: Macmillan.

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Ziefert, Harriet. (2001). Murphy meets the treatdmill. Boston: Walter Lorraine/Houghton Mifflin.

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Quackenbush, Robert. (1984). Rickshaw to horror. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

[Was sorting books and this one came through. Now, with a title like Rickshaw to Horror, how could I NOT take it home?? Unfortunately, it didn't quite live up to its promise, but was a fun little mystery all the same. Quackenbush is a fun, distinctive illustrator. Looking for links, I found out that some of these Miss Mallard titles made their way to cartoon translations. Will have to keep an eye out for the DVD.]




Slonim, David. (2005). He came with the couch. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

[Pretty much a letdown. Great concept for a kids book, but poor follow-through with an ending that is so unoriginal. Of COURSE the little guy has ULTRA quick reflexes and throws the couch out the window to save a kid's life. Out of left field, and way overdone.]

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