$5.22 well-spent

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Dudley Pippin's Summer

is every bit as good as the original Dudley Pippin (whom some of you may know from his, uh, guest appearance on the Free To Be You and Me record), and there's even terrific plot continuity:  Dudley's mom still has a saxophone with two broken keys, and he meets the same witch he'd met in the previous book, hence that story being titled "Dudley and the Witch (No. 2)."

The stories are fantastically amusing and wise, especially for two-page jobs that are supposedly aimed at kids.