Karen and her extremely cute animal friends face some extremely mean bullies on the playground. Help them escape the bullies’ taunts and come up with a game plan to solve their bully problem. Read Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery to see how they do it!

Beat the

BULLIES!

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Karen and her extremely cute animal friends are extremely good at building the grandest sand castle and amusement park anyone has ever seen. Karen is also good at including everyone.

Draw a picture below of what YOU are extremely good at doing.

What are you extremely

GOOD AT?

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1. Cut along the dotted lines.

2. Roll the bottom half of the finger puppets into a tube just big enough for your finger to fit inside.

3. Tape or glue the tube ends together.

4. Hooray! You’ve got yourself an extremely cute finger puppet!

Extremely CUTE

ANIMALS make

extremely CUTE FINGER

PUPPETS!

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Extremely

CUTE ANIMALS Operating

Written & Illustrated by David Gordon

HEAVY MACHINERY

About the AUTHORDavid Gordon has done visual

development for numerous production

companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar,

including Toy Story; Monsters, Inc.;

A Bug’s Life; Cars; BlueSky’s Robots;

and Nickelodeon’s Spongebob

Squarepants. He’s also written and

illustrated several picture books,

among them Hansel and Diesel,

The Three Little Rigs, The

Ugly Truckling, and Smitten.

He’s one of the illustrators of

Jon Scieszka’s fifty-two-book,

New York Times bestselling

series, Trucktown. Visit him

at IllustrationRanch.com.

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