SCARLETTE BEANE

Karen Wallace, , illus. by Jon Berkeley. . Picture Puffin, $6.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-230091-6

PW called this tale of a girl born with a face "as red as a beet," and not only a green thumb, but green fingertips as well, a "sprightly story. Berkeley's characters, with their perpetually surprised expressions and eccentric hairstyles, inject the pages with a droll edginess." Ages 3-7. (Apr.)

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