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Heine's watercolors in this picture book are among the finest and most exquisite to be found in children's books, while the stories seem incomplete, incoherent, crazed, nonsensical, or otherwise hallucinatory and wild. In the most representative tale, "The Crazy Farm," the mouse attacks the cat, the bee collects rocks, the cow produces beer, and the pig, sleeping late, is on strike. Some of the individual paintings are most essentially childlike, inasmuch as they are baffling. After all, the chaos of kids' bedrooms and dreams is an important part of children's territory and readers will be glad such a weirdly funny book exists.Heine, Helme is the author of 'Seven Wild Pigs' with ISBN 9780689504396 and ISBN 068950439X.
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