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Boo Boo.
PreS. Similar in format and approach to Dunrea's picture books about Gossie, Gertie, and Ollie, these volumes introduce two new goslings. Boo Boo presents a little blue gosling who likes to eat; she walks around the barnyard happily devouring morsels left out for the hens, the goat, and the mouse. When she swallows a soap bubble, she begins burping repeatedly. Afterward, Boo Boo seems a little more discriminating about what she calls "Good food." Peedie features a yellow gosling who is a bit forgetful. Though he always wears his baseball cap, one day he forgets where he put it and searches for it without success. His mother reminds him to do a chore he had forgotten, and Peedie is elated to find his cap. Although the simple stories will please children, it's the cleanly designed and sometimes humorous ink-and-watercolor artwork that gives these small books their irresistible charm. The simple texts make these good choices for new readers. Carolyn Phelan
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Review
It is the cleanly designed and sometimes humorous artwork that gives these small books their irresistaible charm. (Booklist, ALA )
Dunrea's simply charming ink-and-watercolor art reveals an endearing cast of diminutive critters. (Publishers Weekly )
The ink-and-watercolor illustrations are as simple as the text, and small children will recognize and relate to each story's tiny arc and resolution. (Kirkus Reviews )
Dunrea's feathered characters have the look and feel of preschoolers rapt in their own discovery of the world. (School Library Journal )
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