![]() ![]() ![]() This pachyderm-cum-ugly-duckling story features richly hued artwork against white backgrounds. ![]() A happy little elephant named Sooki dances through the jungle until a saucy parrot makes fun of Sooki's saggy, baggy skin. It's a paean to dogs and boats, cars and stars-as in ""I like stars/ Far stars/ Quiet stars/ Bright Stars/ Light stars/ I like stars/ A star that is shooting across the dark sky/ A star that is shining right straight in your eye/ I like stars."" Williams packs the illustrations with quirky, often hilarious details for the spread about stars, for example, a rabbit balloonist floats through the night sky in a patched-up balloon, labeled ""starship,"" with a bird's nest on top of it. by Garth Williams, uses rhyming verse to explore a whole series of likable things. Originally published in 1954, The Friendly Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. Golden Books brings back three Big Little Golden Books, picture books from the 1940s and '50s now available in larger-sized, paper-over-board editions. ![]()
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