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Winter, Jonah

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32 pp. | HarperCollins/Tegen | October, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-170392-8 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-170393-5 $18.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by AG Ford. This picture book biography starts off well enough: readers learn about Obama's unconventional upbringing, which inspires the existential questions "Who am I?" and "Where do I belong?" By book's end, though, the text reads more like a mawkish tribute ("Who he was could be summed up in one word: lovable"). The staid illustrations are realistic but stiff.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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