STORM IS COMING!

Heather Tekavec, , illus. by Margaret Spengler. . Puffin, $5.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-240070-8

When a white-bearded farmer announces, "Storm is coming!", Dog panics and warns the other farm animals, who wonder "who is Storm?... He must b-e-e-e very sca-a-a-ry!" PW said, "The author wisely leaves it to readers to point out the animals' faulty logic, while the artwork conveys the sense of emergency but alleviates the fright." Ages 4-up. (Apr.)

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