cover image Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles: From the Diaries of Lucky Hart

Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles: From the Diaries of Lucky Hart

Julia Van Nutt. Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $15.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-385-32553-0

The Fourth of July is fast approaching Cobtown in Julia and Robert Van Nutt's latest installment, Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles. When a mouse eats the Cobtown markings, leaving a hole in a historic map, surveyors arrive to rename the town Carbuncle. Luckily, a holiday game of baseball uncovers the town marker and saves the day. ( June)