cover image The Horrendous Hullabaloo

The Horrendous Hullabaloo

Margaret Mahy. Puffin Books, $4.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-055322-2

PW enjoyed both text (``spiced with alliterative amusements'') and art (``brilliantly colored batik paintings [that] celebrate... joyful noise'') in this larky tale of a young pirate, his aunt and his parrot. Ages 3-8. (Aug.)