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Synopsis
Beatrice is particularly uninterested in books and reading - until she is forced to go to the library with her brother, Henry, who has to work on a school project there. Beatrice's catchphrase is "I don't want to." Henry takes her to the children's room - Beatrice is very impressed with a reading she witnesses there and realizes that she really does love books after all. In the end, Henry cannot get his sister to leave the library!
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About the Author
Laura Numeroff has written numerous children's books. She lives in the USA. Lynn Munsinger graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in illustration, after which she continued her studies in London. She has illustrated more than 90 books for children.
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PreS-Gr. 2. In Numeroff and Munsinger's fourth collaboration, a reluctant reader discovers, in spite of herself, the power of a good book. "Henry had to look after Beatrice. He also had to write a report on dinosaurs." Where better to do both than at the library? Unfortunately, little Bea "hated going to the library." Once there, she greets Henry's every suggestion with a muleish "I don't want to." Finally, a serendipitously timed story hour (and a very funny book) convince her of the library's charms. The siblings are cleverly cast as bassett hounds, an endearing species in any context. Munsinger, queen of anthropomorphic animals, makes them even more so, manipulating their naturally elastic features to reflect Beatrice's moods--beseeching, sulky, endearingly angelic--and to extend the humor of Numeroff's typically pitch-perfect text. Though the plot is somewhat thin and the ending far from surprising, adults will dab at their eyes over the ever-rousing message about the glories of reading; little ones will sympathize with Bea's tagalong status; and big kids will groan in recognition at her contrarian ways. Jennifer Mattson
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- PublisherWalker Books Ltd
- ISBN 10 0744580242
- ISBN 13 9780744580242
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorLynn Munsinger
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