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Bubble Trouble and Other Poems and Stories
By Mahy, Margaret
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68950-557-7
- Publisher
- New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books ; 1992.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1992
Gr 3-5 Five preposterous stories and narrative poems depict some unusual domestic catastrophes and their creative solutions. "Bubble Trouble" deals with a bubble that wafts a baby up into the air until, finally, a pebble shot from a sling-shot (shades of Kahl's The Duchess Bakes a Cake Scribners, 1955; o.p.) brings the child to safety. Word play and alliteration make this nonsense verse a good read-aloud. In "The Runaway Rept...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
