Potato Pants! [Hardcover]

A potato and his eggplant nemesis struggle to find the perfect pants in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of forgiveness by bestselling Geisel-Award winning creator Laurie Keller.

Potato is excited because todayfor one day only Lance Vances Fancy Pants Store is selling . . .POTATO PANTS!

Potato rushes over early, but just as hes about to walk in, something makes him stop. What could it be? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story about misunderstandings and forgiveness, andof coursePotato Pants!

A Christy Ottaviano Book

This title has Common Core connections.

Laurie Kelleris the acclaimed author-illustrator ofDo Unto Otters,Arnie, the Doughnut,The Scrambled States of America, andOpen Wide: Tooth School Inside, among numerous others. She grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and always loved to draw, paint and write stories. She earned a B.F.A. at Kendall College of Art and Design, then worked at Hallmark as a greeting card illustrator for seven-and-a-half years, until one night she got an idea for a childrens book. She quit her job, moved to New York City, and soon had published her first book. She loved living in New York, but she has now returned to her home state, where she lives in a little cottage in the woods on the shore of Lake Michigan.

A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Booklist Best Book of the Year
A Vermont Red Clover Award Master List Selection

Amanic tale thats going to be very hard to read without inducing peels of laughter. . . Keller constructs an alliteration-rich narrative using plenty of exclamation points and big type in multiple colors to crank the volume up even further.Its potato pandemonium, any way you slice it. --Booklist,starred review

There's plenty of silly illustrations and attractive potato pants to keep chuckling readers turning pages tol#D