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Richard Walz

Richard Walz is the illustrator of many humorous historical Step into Reading books. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Martin and Chris Kratt: The Wild Life
Take a Hike, Teddy Roosevelt!
Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner
Listen Up!
Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!
Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race
George Washington and the General's Dog
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
The Fly on the Ceiling
The Pudgy Book of Mother Goose

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Martin and Chris Kratt: The Wild Life
Take a Hike, Teddy Roosevelt!
Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner
Listen Up!
Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!
Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race
George Washington and the General's Dog
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
The Fly on the Ceiling
The Pudgy Book of Mother Goose

The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense

The classic nursery rhymes we know and love—upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds—as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism’s rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright’s The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of

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