![]() ![]() Her drawings are funny and vivacious - as usual, her characters are drawn with wonderful facial expressions and limbs akimbo. Pink and Say, see below) text is smooth, effortless, and completely natural-sounding. Polacco's ( Babushka Baba Yaga, 1993, etc. She gets her wish and winds up seeing a different side of her brother as well. ![]() Worst of all, he's four years older, "always has been and always will be." When Patricia's babushka - her grandmother - teaches her how to wish on a falling star, Patricia wishes to do something better than he does. ![]() He can pick more blackberries, he can eat more rhubarb without puckering he can run faster, climb higher, burp louder, and spit farther. The real problem with him - besides his red wiry hair and his freckles - is that he's always telling her he can do everything better than she can. Patricia has an older brother who looks "like a weasel with glasses," but that's just for starters. ![]()
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