Dora's Chicks

Julie Sykes. Tiger Tales, $14.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-58925-015-4

The eggs from Dora's Eggs have hatched! In Dora's Chicks by Julie Sykes, illus. by Jane Chapman, a mother hen searches the barnyard for her wayward offspring, hidden in the hay and blending with the buttercups. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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