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Selma – Perfect Picture Book Friday
This week, I’m featuring a story about an unusual arachnid named Selma.
Can you tell she’s unusual from the cover? Is it the beret? Maybe. But there’s so much more to Selma than that jaunty cap! Maybe it’s her geometry?
The subtitle on the title page offers another clue, along with more unusual spinning.
Text+Illustration ©Tini Malina English translation ©Tammi ReichelThose eyes, eyes like the ones J
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