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"Too purpley, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly!"

There is not a single outfit in the closet that our little fashion plate wants to wear. She tries on everything, but nothing is quite right. And the outfits are getting wilder by the minute!

It's a scene that is all too familiar to parents, wrapped up in a package that is all too difficult to resist: a playful rhyme scheme and colorful, textile-driven art.
And for "budding gourmets" ...
COMING in July 2010!
For little "fashionistas" everywhere!
COMING JANUARY 2010!
Children's: Picture book
Jean Reidy's
MY OWN LITTLE PIECE OF THE UNIVERSE
A cumulative verse celebrating a child's comforting sense of place. To be illustrated by Caldecott Honor Illustrator Margaret Chodos-Irvine.
Disney Hyperion, Fall 2011
Children's: Picture book
Jean Reidy's
THERE'S A CORNER IN MY HOUSE
  a subversive look at what might happen when a kid with a big imagination is stuck in time out, to be illustrated by Robert Neubecker, creator of WOW! CITY and WOW! SCHOOL!  Disney Hyperion, Release date TBD.
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"Leloup’s bright, digitally mastered illustrations keep up with the comic pace of Reidy’s bouncy rhymes."–School Library Journal