The Sweet and Sour Animal Book
Langston Hughes. Oxford University Press, $9.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-19-512030-1
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Reviewed on: 11/17/1997
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 48 pages - 978-0-19-509185-4
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