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Bubble Trouble

by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar

Bubble Trouble

School And Library, 37 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $16 | purchase

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Book Summary

When her baby brother is captured inside one of her bubbles and floats high in the air, Mabel, her family, and everyone in town chases about to get him safely back down to earth before he sails too far away!

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by Margaret Mahy

The trouble begins when young Mabel blows a bubble that ensnares her baby brother, wafts out the house and begins floating around town. This children's book by Margaret Mahy is beautifully illustrated with the watercolor and cut paper pictures of illustrator Polly Dunbar.

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