WOULD YOU RATHER...

John Burningham, . . North-South/SeaStar, $5.95 (, $5.95 ISBN p) ISBN 978-1-58717-217-5

"Would you rather... your dad did a dance at school or your mom made a fuss in a cafe?" Burningham poses this and many more questions for which "humorous (and thought-provoking) vignettes accompany each possibility," wrote PW. Ages 5-8. (Mar.)

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