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Award-winning Sonya Hartnett spins a tale for younger readers about mischief, siblings, and taking matters into your own hands. Sadie and Ratz are the names of Hannah s hands. They aren t animals, but they behave like wild beasts, says Dad. For one thing, they re always after four-year-old Baby Boy (whom Sadie wishes were a dog). They jump onto his head and try to rub his ears off. Baby Boy knows how to turn the tables, though, and when he spills milk on the carpet, he tells Grandma that Sadie and Ratz pushed him. But when Baby Boy goes too far, Hannah may have to send Sadie and Ratz on vacation to prove their innocence. Multi-award-winning author Sonya Hartnett brings her original sensibility, wry humor, and engaging characters to a younger audience, aided by Ann James s inviting illustrations.

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A piercingly intelligent foray into chapter books...for big sisters and Baby Boys adjusting to each other. A real slice of family life, the sweet with the bitter. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Lindgren Award winner Hartnett has been writing for younger and younger readers in recent years, but whether her audience is teenagers, middle-graders, or now chapter-book readers, she remains willing to expose humanity s more selfish and destructive tendencies, while handling such themes in a way that s on-target and appropriate for her audience. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hartnett adeptly conveys the pain and loneliness of an older sibling facing a monumental moment of change and captures what growing up really means to a child. This joyful choice for reading aloud serves as a discussion starter on coping, acceptance, and maturity, and as an instruction manual on personal narratives. There are myriad ways to appreciate this pitch-perfect story. School Library Journal (starred review)

A piercingly intelligent foray into chapter books...for big sisters and Baby Boys adjusting to each other. A real slice of family life, the sweet with the bitter. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Lindgren Award winner Hartnett has been writing for younger and younger readers in recent years, but whether her audience is teenagers, middle-graders, or now chapter-book readers, she remains willing to expose humanity s more selfish and destructive tendencies, while handling such themes in a way that s on-target and appropriate for her audience. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hartnett adeptly conveys the pain and loneliness of an older sibling facing a monumental moment of change and captures what growing up really means to a child. This joyful choice for reading aloud serves as a discussion starter on coping, acceptance, and maturity, and as an instruction manual on personal narratives. There are myriad ways to appreciate this pitch-perfect story. School Library Journal (starred review)

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Sonya Hartnett is the winner of the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world s largest award for lifetime achievement in children s and youth literature. She is also the author of many acclaimed young adult novels, including Surrender, The Ghost s Child, The Silver Donkey, Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf, What the Birds See, and Thursday s Child. Sonya Hartnett lives in Australia. Ann James is the award-winning illustrator of more than sixty books for children, including The Midnight Babies, Little Humpty, and Lucy Goosey, written by Margaret Wild, and The Way I Love You, by David Bedford. Ann James lives in Australia.

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