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Confiscated! is a hilarious tale of sibling conflict and cooperation between two dinosaur brothers that all kids will relate to.

When Mama hears Brooks and Mikey fighting over yet another toy, it gets CONFISCATED!

(In other words, taken away.)

It's only when ALL the toys are confiscated that Brooks and Mikey finally learn how to work—and play—together nicely.

(But not before creating a whole heap of trouble . . . )

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ISBN-13:	9780062410863
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Suzanne Kaufman is an author, illustrator, animator, and lover of all things that giggle, roar, bark, or meow. Over the years she’s done everything from animating special effects for Universal Television and the Discovery Channel to animating award-winning video games for children. She lives in Seattle with her husband, two daughters, a sausage-chasing dog, and a real closet full of confiscated toys. When not playing with those toys, she can be found teaching animation or working in her studio. Visit her at www.suzannekaufman.com.

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06/05/2017
In this lively story from Kaufman (Samanthasaurus Rex), two dinosaur brothers fight over their toys, which prompts their mother to take each item away: “They fought over the bike. Confiscated! They fought over Grandpa’s tuba. Confiscated!” After all of their possessions wind up padlocked in a wardrobe (not even the family dog is safe), Mikey and Brooks quickly become bored. With “nothing left to do but talk to each other,” the boys reminisce about the times they played together and cooperated, which leads them to team up to free a sequestered balloon from the wardrobe—and create a big mess in the process. Kaufman’s colloquial tone (“But then... they got busted!”) and use of “Confiscated!” to punctuate her text should make for fun readalouds, and her brightly colored digital illustrations, set against blank white backgrounds, keep the focus on the boys and their toys. It’s a relatable, if predictable and easily resolved, story of sibling conflict, and its message about the benefits of cooperation comes through loud and clear. Ages 4–8. Agent: Alexandra Penfold, Upstart Crow Literary. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

2017-05-10
Bickering brothers resolve their differences and recover their confiscated toys.Brooks and Mikey, anthropomorphic dinosaurs, fight over everything. And when they fight, their mother confiscates whatever it is that they're refusing to share—a bike, "Grandpa's tuba," a "Mexican wrestling mask," and so on. Soon, their toys are all stuffed into a bulging storage closet, and all the boys can do is talk with each other. Their reminiscing about an "epic paper-plane battle," among other feats, leads them to recall winning "the last red balloon," something their mother confiscated in frontmatter pages and that can be seen through those storage-closet doors. Working together, they stack odds and ends to retrieve the balloon, and, predictably, they end up jostling the storage closet enough that its doors burst open and all of their confiscated toys come spilling out in a great big mess. Despite their worries about being "busted" by their mom, the brothers end up basking in her praise for sharing the balloon—but they still have to clean up the mess they've made. Kaufman's cartoon style with its bright palette against the white of the page adds vitality to the quarreling characters in this humorous sibling-rivalry story. A good book on sharing and for sharing. (Picture book. 3-7)

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