What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby?

Cressida Cowell. Scholastic, $7.99 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-439-44266-4

A quartet of animal friends attempt to soothe a crying infant in What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell, illus. by Ingrid Godon. PW said of the picture book, published in 2000, ""Cowell's sense of economy and pacing move the story along at a fast clip, while Godon calls attention to the situation's vaudevillian qualities.""

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