The Escape Of Marvin The Ape

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city life

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

When Marvin the Ape makes a break from the zoo, he heads straight downtown to the heart of the action, where he discovers everything the big city has to offer. Dining at the finest restaurants, strolling through museums, commuting with the crowds and rooting for the local baseball team, Marvin fits right in with the natives. And he may never leave!"AThe Buehners's? vocabulary choices and turns of phrase imbue this romp with an appealing sense of wonder?.Mark Buehner's paintings brim with kinetic energy." ? Publishers Weekly, starred review

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

"It was feeding time at the zoo, and when the zookeeper wasn't looking, Marvin slipped out!" So begins the great escape of Marvin the ape, whose multimedia romp through New York will delight and teach young and old alike. System Requirements: (Windows) 486 or Pentium processor; double-speed CD-ROM drive; 256SVGA color monitor; Windows 3.1; mouse; SoundBlaster or compatible sound card; 4MB RAM. (Macintosh) Mac LC series or better; double-speed CD-ROM drive; color monitor; System 7.0 or higher; 4MB RAM.

If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? Ten years ago, on the publication of Snowmen at Night, we discovered the secret lives of snowmen. While we humans sleep, the snowmen go sledding, play baseball, and drink cocoa. But now it's revealed that snowmen don't just play all night--they have jobs to do, just like the parents of human kids. Dentists replace missing coal from snowman smiles while pet store owners help pair snowkids with their very own snowpuppy or snowfish to love. The pizza man delivers frozen pizza, and factory workers make the coolest toys in town. This fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Snowmen series is a gleeful, goofy delight. Kids will love spotting the silly details in each illustration, and the hidden pictures too. (They can look on the back side of the book jacket for a key to all that's concealed within.)

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