Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten

Jack Gantos, Author, Nicole Rubel, Illustrator, Jack Gantos, Read by Farrar Straus Giroux $15.99 (47p) ISBN 978-0-374-36357-4

For kids anxious about a trip to the doctor, their favorite feline may offer some assistance, in Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten: A Rotten Ralph Rotten Reader by Jack Gantos, illus. by Nicole Rubel. After he feasts on a ""green chicken wing,"" ""furry fish"" and a carton of ""chunky chocolate milk"" from a garbage can, Ralph needs to visit the vet. It isn't long before Ralph's rottenness is back in full swing. .

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