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Booklist - 03/01/2018 The creator of Splat! (2017) offers more page-turn-based tomfoolery, but this time with a more literary bent. Visible only as shadowy hands in most of the loudly colored, simply drawn scenes, a thief swaps a series of items for others that, it turns out, rhyme—a hat is replaced by a cat, a pair of clogs by frogs, a happy smile by a crocodile. Occasional hints (“Gumpop’s lovely head / became a slice of . . .”) help the more rhyme-challenged readers get into the swing of things. After finding an appropriate replacement for “orange” forces the puzzled thief to pause so long that the police catch up, readers will have to fill in the wordless jailbreak’s absent narrative themselves. Clues abound: there’s a sock on the open cell door. Young versifiers who are, like the thief, stymied by the lack of a ready rhyme for orange will find one solution at least in Adam Rex’s more or less deceptively titled Nothing Rhymes with Orange (2017). - Copyright 2018 Booklist.

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