What's So Bad About Being an Only Child?

Cari Best; Pictures by Sophie Blackall

Melanie Kroupa Books

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Rosemary knows what it’s like to be an only child: there are grownups everywhere! Brothers and sisters are what she wants. Even when they argue, it’s like belonging to a special club, she thinks. How can she get a larger, more lively family? Rosemary is stumped, until she discovers some “only” creatures and figures out a way to bring home what’s missing in her life.
 
Humorous illustrations that pop with personality show Rosemary growing from a bewildered baby surrounded by too many hovering adults to a confident backyard ringmaster who proves that being an only child can be fun!

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Praise for What's So Bad About Being an Only Child?

"Blackall, who elevates everything she illustrates, has a knack for using clever details to get the humor across."—Booklist
 
"Spunky, compassionate."—Kirkus Reviews
 
"Kids should applaud this self-reliant, spunky heroine."—Publishers Weekly
 
"Pert, roundheaded Rosemary has a vivid (and vividly dressed) presence in keeping with her strength of mind."—Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books
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Cari Best; Pictures by Sophie Blackall

CARI BEST’s most recent book is Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She lives in Weston, Connecticut.  SOPHIE BLACKALL is the illustrator of Meet Wild Boars, a Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon selection. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Cari Best; Pictures by Sophie Blackall
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CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI), Parents' Choice Honor Books

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Hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Melanie Kroupa Books
September 2007
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374399436
ISBN10: 0374399433
Picture Book
9 x 10 inches, 32 pages, Full-color illustrations throughout
Age Range: 4 to 8
Grade Range: p to 3
$16.00
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