The Scroobius Pip

Edward Lear. HarperCollins Publishers, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-443132-3

PW declared this ""the picture book not to be missed! It isn't Edward Lear's The Scroobious Pip, it's Nancy Ekholm Burkert's The Scroobious Pip. How beautiful all of her pictures are.'' (All ages)

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