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Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Gr 1-4 In the first few lines, Lewis sets the stage for this tongue-in-cheek rhyming ramble. "The town of Trouble lay between/Good-Grief! and Who's-to-Blame?-/Three villages exactly almost/Opposite the same." The trouble in Trouble is the petulant, pouting Queen Angeline, who is unable to find a suitable mattress. Brooker's comic scenes of the kingdom in turmoil smoothly blend paper, fabric, and paint into energetic views of the worried folks trying to please the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More