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Albert and his trusty mare June set off early on market day to sell their melons in town and return home before dark. Is this another insignificant day in the life of a farmer? Perhaps-but look again. This is a trip kids will want to take again and again.

Albert and his trusty mare, June, set off early on market day to sell their melons in town, thus beginning a mysterious chain of events in a thought-provoking journey that ex-poses ordinary life as an intricate sequence of action and reaction.

Publishers Weekly

Nine brief chapters energetically telegraph seemingly disparate adventures. The illustrations make a perfect marriage of comedy and chaos, said PW in a starred review. All ages. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Visual clues provide answers to the mysterious interrelationship of a series of brief stories.