Carolyn Crimi is the author of the picture book Outside, Inside and the guidebook Kidding Around Chicago. Lynn Munsinger is a prolific children's book illustrator, best known for Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best by Laura Numeroff.
"* "[A] slyly funny and deeply touching story." - Publishers Weekly, Starred "Munsinger's expressive, detailed line-and-watercolor pictures capture the grouchy nonsense and also the real feelings." - Booklist
"* "[A] slyly funny and deeply touching story." - Publishers Weekly, Starred "Munsinger's expressive, detailed line-and-watercolor pictures capture the grouchy nonsense and also the real feelings." - Booklist
K-Gr 2-When Possum moves away and leaves his friend behind, Rat turns his back on the other inhabitants of the junkyard, muttering, "Don't need friends, don't need 'em at all." Children will appreciate the snappy dialogue that is flung back and forth between Rat and a curmudgeonly stray dog that moves in, and they'll realize (long before the two animals do) that the two were meant to be friends. Munsinger's pen-and-watercolor illustrations make the junkyard look messy without being utterly dreary and the dog and rat are imbued with plenty of personality and pizzazz. Pair this story with both traditional and nontraditional friendship titles, such as Kevin Henkes's Chester's Way (Greenwillow, 1988) or Marjorie Sharmat's I'm Terrific (Holiday, 1977), for an interesting mix.-Lisa Gangemi Krapp, Rockville Centre Public Library, NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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