No Nibbling!
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From New York Times-bestselling author Beth Ferry and illustrator A.N. Kang comes a tale filled with fantastic word play that will have kids laughing and insisting, "No nibbling!"
One warm spring day, Derwood the goat planted a garden and patiently tended it as it grew. On that very same day, he noticed a dandelion puff--it was too early in the season, but Derwood was taking no chances. Growing a garden is risky business, after all. But as Derwood inspected the dandelion, he realized it wasn't a weed. It was a bunny! With Tabitha, a precocious bunny who is very interested in all the tasty vegetables, hopping on the scene, what ensues is a pun-filled tale that will leave you saying, "No nibbling!"
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Derwood, a pince nez–wearing billy goat, seems a preternaturally calm gardener. With his planting done, he sits in a chair atop the freshly tilled ground with a cup of tea in his lap: "Wait. Grow, grow," writes Ferry (Swashby and the Sea). And grow the garden does: in Kang's (My Big Bad Monster) watercolor-like digital pictures, which are as meticulous as the story's protagonist, the early pages' spare compositions give way to a sylvan festival of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and squash. But the garden also brings out the anti-pest curmudgeon in Derwood, and he's soon tangling with a persistent bunny named Tabitha. Her attentiveness and politeness resonate with the lonely goat (she hangs on to every word as he expounds on the nuances of precipitation), but her slips into vegetable wordplay—"Mama said I'd butter bean home soon"—seems to reveal nefarious nibbling intentions. Is Tabitha's innate rabbitiness a friendship deal-breaker? With the lightest of touches, the creators show how the give and take of friendship is itself a kind of cultivation, and that the results can be highly nourishing. Ages 4–7. Agent (for Ferry and Kang): Elena Giovinazzo, Pippin Properties.
