Her drawings are funny and vivacious - as usual, her characters are drawn with wonderful facial expressions and limbs akimbo. Pink and Say, see below) text is smooth, effortless, and completely natural-sounding. Polacco's ( Babushka Baba Yaga, 1993, etc. She gets her wish and winds up seeing a different side of her brother as well. Worst of all, he's four years older, "always has been and always will be." When Patricia's babushka - her grandmother - teaches her how to wish on a falling star, Patricia wishes to do something better than he does. He can pick more blackberries, he can eat more rhubarb without puckering he can run faster, climb higher, burp louder, and spit farther. The real problem with him - besides his red wiry hair and his freckles - is that he's always telling her he can do everything better than she can. Patricia has an older brother who looks "like a weasel with glasses," but that's just for starters.
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