Inside the Slidy Diner.

Inside the Slidy Diner. Inside the Slidy Diner Laurel Snyder, author Jaime Zollars, illustrator Tricycle Press PO Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707 9781582461878, $15.99 www.tenspeed.com 1-800-481-2665 The debut children's book of author Laurel Snyder, Inside theSlidy Diner is an exuberant, rhyming picturebook about a younggirl's adventures in the Slidy Diner, a restaurant filled with mostunusual characters. The Slidy Diner has unusual rules and isn'talways quite up to health code regulations, to say the least--but howmuch of the weirdness could be real, and how much is from a younggirl's imagination? The carefree illustrations perfectly complementthe story's wild and off-the-wall sense of fun. "My mothersaid that before my time at The Slidy Diner, there were gigantic gingercookies here. But the cookies got smaller and smaller and smaller andsmaller and ... The same thing might happen to you."