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The Troublemaker

A short simple story, with only a sentence or so per page, it’s definitely intended for the youngest audiences.  While everyone else is busy with things to do around the yard, a young boy goes off to play pirate with his stuffed raccoon, including snitching his sister’s stuffed bunny, who ends up in the lake.  After returning the sopping bunny and facing the music, the bunny goes missing again, for which the boy gets blamed.  Over the course of the afternoon and evening the boy’s toys also go missing, and if the reader is watching the illustrations, they see that a real raccoon is the culpret, which the boy discovers in the morning, declaring the sneaky raccoon to be a real troublemaker.  Very young readers will enjoy knowing that they know things the characters don’t.