The Ferocious Beast: With the Polka-Dot Hide

Betty Paraskevas. Aladdin Paperbacks, $5.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-689-83830-9

In this rhyming story, a piglet captured by a spotted beast (with an appetite for pork) convinces his predator that he's about to outgrow his speckled skin, and the two form an unlikely friendship. Ages 3-6. (May)

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