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It All Began With a Bean.


It All Began With A Bean

Katie McKy Katie McKy is an educator and writer of mainstream material, children's literature, fishing articles for sporting magazines, and professional academic material in the field of education. She was born in 1956 and received a master's degree in education from Harvard University.  & Tracy Hill

Tanglewood Press

PO Box 3009, Terre Haute Terre Haute (tĕr`ə hōt, tĕr`ē hŭt), city (1990 pop. 51,483), seat of Vigo co., W Ind., on the Wabash River; inc. 1816. , IN 47803

097493030X $14.95 www.tanglewoodbooks.com

It All Began With A Bean is a delightfully whimsical whim·si·cal  
adj.
1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary.

2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality.
 picturebook exploration of what would happen if 5 flies feasted on beans, 15 pigeon pigeon, common name for members of the large family Columbidae, land birds, cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical regions, characterized by stout bodies, short necks, small heads, and thick, heavy plumage.  dined on raisins, 45 cats chomped on cheese, 135 dogs woofed down potato chips, thousands of kids (and their teachers!) chewed bubble gum, half a million people ate eggs; a million fish swam through soda, and more than a million people gulped big breaths before a race--and then they all farted at the same time. Katie McKy's original story is wonderfully illustrated by Tracy Hill--the result is a modern classic that will thoroughly engage the imaginations of young readers ages 4 to 8 from beginning to end.
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