cover image What a Catastrophe!

What a Catastrophe!

Wayne Campbell. Bradbury Press, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-02-716420-6

The trouble begins when the young hero of this tale comes to breakfast with a frog in his pocket. The frog jumps onto the table, to the consternation of his parents and the amusement of his brothers and sister. What happens next is anybody's guessliterally. Readers are offered four different endings to choose from. Unlike similar children's books, which often endorse one ending over the others (thereby penalizing readers for making the wrong choice), this offers four equally goofy and pointless endings. Ages 47. (April)