I See a Star

Jean Marzollo. Cartwheel Books, $7.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-439-26616-1

Another pageant unfolds in Suse MacDonald's watercolors for Jean Marzollo's rebus story I See a Star. A rebus key introduces the 17 words of text; the q&a format makes it easy to get in the groove (""[can] U C a [camel]?/ [eye] C a [camel]"").

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