Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler might have filed this under U or pee.

Boot and Shoe by Marla Frazee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The surprise element at the story's climax provides the kind of aha moment I so enjoy in many picture books, and is the reason I read them!

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Sweet (but not sappy).

Charley's First Night by Amy Hest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A child narrates the events of the first night a puppy spends in the house of his new family. Just-right sweetness.

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Loads of fun

Black Jack by Leon Garfield
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Enjoy the ride as you are swept through a dark 17th-century England with Dickensian characters.

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