Fast Food! Gulp! Gulp!
Bernard Waber, . . Houghton, $5.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-618-55561-1
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Reviewed on: 07/11/2005
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 32 pages - 978-0-618-14189-0
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