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Beezy at Batby Megan McDonald Ages 4-8 |
In the third easy chapter book about Beezy, she plays baseball, scares her friend with a snake, and cracks riddles with Gran on the porch. The riddles are silly, but they are a playful way to enjoy words; the baseball action has a nice turnaround when the clumsy kid learns to catch; and the snake episode is just on the edge of shivery. Cheerful gouache illustrations show Beezy and her friends having fun in the Florida sunshine. — Booklist (Hazel Rochman)
In this third chapter book about Beezy, she trades riddles with Gran and Mr. Gumm, finds a snake while picking berries with her friend Merlin, and gets an unusual new unicycleriding player for her baseball team. The stories and their cartoonstyle illustrations are amusing enough, but readers who don't know the previous books might feel a little lost. — Horn Book