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Hoffman, Mary

Amazing Grace

32 pp. | Dial | January, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8037-1040-5 $18.99
New ed. (1991)
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Caroline Binch. In the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a modern classic, Amazing Grace no longer imagines herself to be Hiawatha, a page in the original book that critics had cited as cultural appropriation in service of racial pride. That the images remain of Grace emulating Kipling's Mowgli and tying up one leg to play peg-legged pirate only goes to show just how complicated the diversity debate can be.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1991; May, 2016

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