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A delightful collaboration.
Born in the company of a comic angel, Potch
always wakes up happy to be who and where he is. When he meets Polly
Pumpernickel at a masquerade ball, he does a double backflip, but it's his heart
that really goes for a whirl. Polly goes for a whirl, too, and winds up in a
fountain after a dance-gone-wrong with Potch. One catastrophe follows another as
Potch tries to win her affection. Just when things look utterly hopeless, Potch
discovers he's not the only one with a few tricks up his sleeve . . .
Reviews
Publishers Weekly
"The . . . storytelling and artful compositions
have puckish considerable spark."
Kirkus Reviews
"Extravagant prose . . . gives the essentially adult tale the air of
a sophisticated valentine, but perceptive younger readers will also catch the
tenderness underlying this rocky, slapstick romance."
School Library Journal - *starred review
"This irresistible picture book has it all: a
tongue-in-cheek text brimming with deliciously alliterative phrases, wry
cartoons that mix visual gags with a comic-book punch, and a plot featuring two
lovers who are taunted by twists of fate and turns of slapstick humor."
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Potch
& Polly