WHY NOT?
Mary Wormell, . . FSG/Sunburst, $5.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-374-48384-5
An engaging, feisty kitten replies "why not?" to each of his mother's warnings.
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Reviewed on: 01/20/2003
Genre: Children's
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