Sock Monkey Boogie Woogie: A Friend Is Made

Cece Bell. Candlewick Press (MA), $14.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2392-0

After taking Tinseltown by storm in Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood: A Star Is Bathed, the tweedy star now seeks a dance partner for the Big Celebrity Dance in Sock Monkey Boogie-Woogie: A Friend Is Made by Cece Bell. After the auditions he holds go bust, the hero literally makes his own dancing buddy. .

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