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PreSchool-Grade 1?A familiar story of differing viewpoints between mother and child is presented in charmingly simple cumulative verse and rebuses. A young boy is packing for a trip to visit his grandmother. He fills a shopping bag with his mitt, cars, space ship, wooden animals, his favorite stuffed rabbit, his pillow, a book, a flashlight. But then along comes mom with ideas of her own! Each object that he decides to take is introduced with a full-page illustration done in watercolor and colored pencil. Then, as it is added to the items "that I'll pack in the bag I'm taking to Grandma's," the book takes a rebus format, so beginning readers will soon be able to "tell" the story as it goes along. Children will identify with the boy, as parents will relate to the mother.