![]() ![]() The narrative text is printed in standard type, but the children’s dialogue is rendered in hand-lettered printing within speech balloons. ![]() Hanlon illustrates the episode with childlike scenes done in transparent colors, featuring friendly-looking children with big smiles and widely spaced button eyes. That’s all he has, though, until his classmates’ questions-“Did it feel squishy?” “Did your mom let you keep it?” “Did you name it?”-open the floodgates for a rousing yarn featuring an interloping toddler, a broad comic turn and a dramatic rescue. One day, lying under the desk in despair, he remembers finding an inchworm in the park. With a little help from his audience, a young storyteller gets over a solid case of writer’s block in this engaging debut.ĭespite the (sometimes creatively spelled) examples produced by all his classmates and the teacher’s assertion that “Stories are everywhere!” Ralph can’t get past putting his name at the top of his paper. ![]()
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