Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions

Robin Tzannes, Korky Paul. Oxford University Press, USA, $9.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-19-521446-8

When a chemist leaves her perfidious assistant alone in the laboratory with her beloved pet guinea pig, betrayal (and eventually justice) results. ""This deliciously wacky book exhibits all the best qualities of British outrageousness just this side of Monty Python,"" said PW. Ages 6-up. (May)

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