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K-Gr 2 While the grown-ups are immersed in pie eating and other outdoor carnival festivities, their babies crawl away. The only one to observe this phenomenon is a toddler in a fireman's hat who follows them and saves them from such disasters as bat caves, cliff-hanging, and hunger, along the way shouting very responsible warnings and imprecations to "behave." When he brings them safely home, he is, of course, a hero. In the penultimate spread, it transpire...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

While the grownups are taking part in a pie-eating contest, only a preschooler-ish boy wearing a firefighter helmet notices when "the babies" crawl away, following a swarm of butterflies. The rhyming story of the babies' adventure is told inside the framework of a mother reminding her son, the preschool boy with the hat, what happened: "Remember the way / You tried to save the day? / You hollered, 'HEY! / You babies, STAY!' / But none of them did. / And some of them hid. / I SAY! / What a day / When...Log In or Sign Up to Read More