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BILLIE'S ANIMAL HOSPITAL ADVENTURE by Sally Rippin

BILLIE'S ANIMAL HOSPITAL ADVENTURE

From the Billie's Super-Duper Adventures series

by Sally Rippin ; illustrated by Alisa Coburn

Pub Date: Sept. 1st, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61067-607-6
Publisher: Kane Miller

The latest installment in the Billie’s Super-Duper Adventures series explores veterinarian dramatic play.

Billie is normally a preschooler set on high speed. She often bounds into school, ready for adventure. But on this particular day, the little white girl limps in, full of woe. She has a scrape on her knee. Brown-skinned Mr. Simon sympathizes with her pain and shows her that Teddy (a stuffed bear) also has an injury. Quick as a wink, Billie and her sidekick pal, Jack, also white, rush off in the cardboard ambulance. As they speed into a cloud of imagination, the classroom instantly transforms into an animal hospital with Dr. Billie and Nurse Jack treating a wide assortment of critters—even a large hippo that has eaten too much ice cream. True to child-doctor sensibilities, many an ailment can be healed with a superabundance of bandages and a spoonful of medicine. Billie and Jack also award star stickers to very brave patients. In the simultaneously publishing Billie’s Outer Space Adventure, Billie and Jack explore Planet Pom-Pom—of course coming up with a “super-duper idea” to save the day when they come across a stranded space tourist. The addition of a few new characters of various skin tones in both books is welcomed.

Brimming with enthusiasm, emphasized words, and silly sounds, these cheery books will have emergent readers clamoring for more.

(Picture book. 3-6)