Toy Dance Party: being the further adventures of a bossy-boots stingray, a courageous buffalo, and a hopeful round someone called Plastic

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2008 by Emily Jenkins

Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Paul O. Zelinsky

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Jenkins, Emily.

Toy dance party : being the further adventures of a bossyboots Stingray, a courageous Buffalo, and a hopeful round someone called Plastic / Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.

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Summary: Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.

Contents: The toys are left in — In which there are wonderful costumes and violence occurs — The garbage-eating shark (which is not the same as the possible shark) — Concerning that plump mouse Bonkers, the vacuum cleaner, and a friendship between fish — In which there is a sleepover and somebody needs repair — Let’s do our nails.

eISBN: 978-0-375-98280-4

[1. Toys—Fiction. 2. Best friends—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction.] I. Zelinsky, Paul O., ill. II. Title.

PZ7.J4134Tov 2008

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2007044112

First Yearling Edition

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