Description: "Van Laan's riotous, don't-try-this-at-home tale sends a ceaselessly smiling tot zipping through town in his runaway buggy, which creates merry mayhem as it crashes into a variety of objects and individuals. 'Little baby Bobby/babbles in delight./ Clap! go his hands/ as his buggy takes flight.'; and with each mishap (much to Bobby's amusement, his stroller hits a policeman, a hydrant, a pretzel cart, a painter and a letter carrier), the throng following in the carriage's wake grows. Cornell's ebullient cartoon art helps make this a jolly chase indeed. With ingenuous humor, she conveys the nonstop motion of Bobby's madcap spree as well as a range of exaggerated emotions -- from Bobby's sheer joy to his in-pursuit sitter's total panic. Her full-spread pictures amplify the beat of van Laan's alliterative, finger-snapping verso complete with spirited sound effects ('Smasha-crasha-smoosha!'; 'Foom-fibba-fum!') -- that especially recommend this as a read-aloud." -- Publishers Weekly

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