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When I Grow Up
Hardcover, 1 v. (unpaged), Harpercollins Childrens Books, List Price: $17.99 | purchase
Book Summary
An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.
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- Show-and-tell presentations,
- Occupations,
- Stories in rhyme,
- Humorous stories,
- Schools,
- Fiction
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'Weird Al's' Advice: Follow Your Muse To 'Grow Up'
February 27, 2011 In Grammy-award winning parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic's new children's book, When I Grow Up, Billy tells his teacher he wants to be a gorilla masseuse. When Yankovic himself was growing up, he wanted to be a writer for Mad magazine, he tells Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.
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