... is a small book that offers uncluttered ink outline illustrations and a quiet incident -- best suited to the pre-nap...

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... is a small book that offers uncluttered ink outline illustrations and a quiet incident -- best suited to the pre-nap reading of short attention spans. It recounts a discovery by Mouse who tells his best friend, Turtle, who lets Trisha in on it until a whole menagerie of animals -- giraffes, horses, elephants, birds -- gather to watch the discovery (three alligator eggs) hatch. The author/illustrator goes Joan Walsh Anglund one better -- the little girl Trisha, in addition to having no mouth, has no nose. A pleasant bookstore pick-up item and, if it were closer to Christmas, a potential stocking stuffer.

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Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1964

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