My Special One and Only
By Joe Berger
(Dial, Hardcover, 9780803734104, 32pp.)
Publication Date: August 16, 2012
Categories: Toys, Dolls, & Puppets, Social Issues - Friendship, Action & Adventure - General
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A screwball-sweet story that asks, what if you lost your favorite toy, and someone else called it their own?
After Bridget's wiggly tooth falls out, she finds a shiny golden coin under her pillow. "Hold on tight," Bridget says to Captain Cat, her special-one-and-only toy--it's off to Dinglebang's Toy Store. But in all the excitement, Captain Cat is lost! After a high-speed chase in friend Billy's toy car, Bridget sees another girl pick up Captain Cat--and walk away with him. Bridget manages to get her special one and only back, but now the other girl is crying! So with her shiny golden coin, Bridget buys a Ballet Cat for the girl, a Racing Cat for Billy, and gets herself an I Got Lost in Dinglebang's button. Even better? Bridget has another wiggly tooth . . .
Joe Berger lives in Bristol, England.
"Berger's boldly inked cartooning overflows with energy and visual jokes"
-Publishers Weekly
"A wonderful choice for children who may have lost special toys of their own and a great companion to Shirley Hughes's classic David and Dog"
-School Library Journal
"With nonstop pep and pace and droll, hyperbolic touches, the animated text and colorfully cluttered cartoonish illustrations capture the chaos and drama."
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