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Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Caldecott Honor Book)

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

When the going gets boring, dig a hole. That's what Sam and Dave decide to do, and thanks to the combined hilarity of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, this may be the most riveting hole digging ever to appear on the page.

A New York Times bestseller!

A Caldecott Honor Book


With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.


Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looki...

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