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JOJO by Marjorie Barrows

JOJO

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Publisher: Rand, McNally

There's a bit too much informative (?) text in this toy book for classification as a picture book, but it really rates as a piece of merchandise and not a very good one. Companion volume to Timothy Tiger, which also had a glowing eye feature -- as has this -- and which, I regret to say, the children of four and five adored; JoJo was a Koala Bear in far off Australia, and in his adventures he encounters other animals of the lands down under, -- kangaroos, wallabies, duckbills, wild dogs, wombats, as he hunts for the bandicoot baby. Harmless -- but...