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    Police Officers on Patrol

    Author Kersten Hamilton
    Illustrated by R.W. Alley
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    Hardcover
    $18.99 US
    Penguin Young Readers | Viking Books for Young Readers
    10.31"W x 9.5"H x 0.33"D   | 14 oz | 32 per carton
    On sale Apr 16, 2009 | 32 Pages | 9780670063154
    Age 3-5 years | Up to Kindergarten
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    A broken light might cause a crash! Who can help? Who is fast?

    Officer Mike, on traffic patrol!

    Situation? Under control! ?When people need help, we rock and roll!?

    With Kersten Hamilton?s high-energy rhyming text that begs to be read aloud, and R. W. Alley?s warm and silly illustrations, this picture book is a fun and reassuring way to tell kids about what police offi - cers do.

    ?With a well-crafted text spiced with sound effects, this appealing picture book is highly recommended.?? Booklist, starred review for Red Truck

    Kersten Hamilton was born in a trailer in the mountains of southern New Mexico. By their sixth birthday they knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. A writer! This would prove to be difficult, as a wayward fairy (apparently not invited to Kersten’s christening) gifted the child with dyslexia and dysgraphia topped with a dollop of autism spectrum disorder. Unaware of the academic and social trouble ahead, Kersten set off to have an exciting childhood tracking caribou and arctic wolves across in Alaska, catching tiny tree frogs in the swamps and rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, and chasing dust devils and rattlesnakes across the high desert of New Mexico. Kersten escaped electrocution when a typhoon blew power lines down over yet another trailer in a swamp in Washington state, and didn’t drown when a station wagon spun out of control onto thin lake ice in Alaska. Most of the bullets missed, none of the incidents with bears, snakes, wolves, or angry moose were fatal. It was the perfect childhood for anyone aspiring to be a writer!  When not writing, Kersten collaborates on Minecraft adventures with a husband, several grown children, and more than several grandchildren. View titles by Kersten Hamilton
    R. W. Alley has illustrated more than 60 children's books including Best Kind of Baby and Ballerino Nate. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. View titles by R.W. Alley

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    A broken light might cause a crash! Who can help? Who is fast?

    Officer Mike, on traffic patrol!

    Situation? Under control! ?When people need help, we rock and roll!?

    With Kersten Hamilton?s high-energy rhyming text that begs to be read aloud, and R. W. Alley?s warm and silly illustrations, this picture book is a fun and reassuring way to tell kids about what police offi - cers do.

    ?With a well-crafted text spiced with sound effects, this appealing picture book is highly recommended.?? Booklist, starred review for Red Truck

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    Kersten Hamilton was born in a trailer in the mountains of southern New Mexico. By their sixth birthday they knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. A writer! This would prove to be difficult, as a wayward fairy (apparently not invited to Kersten’s christening) gifted the child with dyslexia and dysgraphia topped with a dollop of autism spectrum disorder. Unaware of the academic and social trouble ahead, Kersten set off to have an exciting childhood tracking caribou and arctic wolves across in Alaska, catching tiny tree frogs in the swamps and rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, and chasing dust devils and rattlesnakes across the high desert of New Mexico. Kersten escaped electrocution when a typhoon blew power lines down over yet another trailer in a swamp in Washington state, and didn’t drown when a station wagon spun out of control onto thin lake ice in Alaska. Most of the bullets missed, none of the incidents with bears, snakes, wolves, or angry moose were fatal. It was the perfect childhood for anyone aspiring to be a writer!  When not writing, Kersten collaborates on Minecraft adventures with a husband, several grown children, and more than several grandchildren. View titles by Kersten Hamilton
    R. W. Alley has illustrated more than 60 children's books including Best Kind of Baby and Ballerino Nate. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. View titles by R.W. Alley

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