Tissue, Please! by Lisa Kopelke

32 p., Simon, 2004. When you have a cold, it's important to learn to use tissues. Unfortunately for Frog and his friends, although both their classroom teacher and and their ballet teacher object to their sniffling and wiping their noses on their arms, neither offers an alternative. But Frog's parents have the answer: when he starts to sniffle in the middle of dinner, his father explains that that isn't polite and the table, and his mother gives him tissues. Frog discovers that when he blows his nose into a tissue, it feels great. So when his nose begins to run during his big ballet recital, one look from his teacher is all that it takes for him to remember to get a tissue. He incorporates blowing his nose into his dance move, inspiring his class. Both his teacher and the audience are pleased - and this begins a tradition of performing the "dance of the Tissue-Box Fairies." With its edgy, acrylic illustrations, this story may help make appropriate nose-blowing attractive to children. Ages 3-6

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