![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The capricious artwork has touches of Helen Oxenbury and Marla Frazee’s babies, smudgy, digitized pencil sketches full of movement and joy. A string of blue dotted lines traces the movements of all the tossed and flying objects. Body and facial expressions need no translating. Toddler drops all the other toys in the dog’s water bowl, spraying water on the laughing kids and dog (who breaks the textual pattern with one “Woof?”). Dog shakes wet bunny, showering water everywhere. Baby flings toy bunny in the air, and it lands in the dog’s water dish. Initially, this scene of play starts badly, with the toddler rounding up all the toys, uttering “mine” with each one. The text is virtually wordless-just one word, “Mine,” which is repeated in the first several spreads and is implied in following scenes. Though the situation is quite familiar, it’s the whimsical illustrations that capture every comical nuance here. What toddler hasn’t experienced the frustration of trying to retrieve toys from a baby sibling or the family dog with a shouted “MINE!”? ![]()
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