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32 pp.
| Boyds
| March, 2004
|
TradeISBN 1-59078-075-2$$15.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Suzanne Bloom.
A boy describes his classroom's preparation for a visit by author Amanda Drake, who fields his question: will she write a book about her visit? In the end, readers learn that they're holding that very book. There's no denying the excitement generated by the story's lively art and original, although self-conscious, premise, but some of the rhymes clunk.
32 pp.
| Boyds
| October, 2002
|
TradeISBN 1-56397-147-X$$15.95
(4)
PS
Illustrated by
Suzanne Bloom.
In this rhyming alphabet book, twenty-six girls, each of whose names begins with a different letter, are shown energetically pursuing their presumed future vocations ("Aliki is an astronaut, / Belinda likes ballet, / Chris is a computer whiz-- / she's online every day"). The festive illustrations of the girls simultaneously at work and at play make the book's wrap-up--"Girls, / Be anything you want to be," etc.--unnecessary.