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LITERATURE

Zolotow, Charlotte

Changes: A Child's First Poetry Collection

40 pp. | Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4926-0168-5 $16.99

(3) PS Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. The collection includes twenty-eight poems by Zolotow, published in the year of what would have been her one-hundredth birthday. The brief poems capture small seasonal moments, providing an approachable start for first-time poetry readers: "A moment in summer / belongs to me / and one particular / honey bee." The theme of seasonal change is echoed throughout the colorful digitally created illustrations of nature and people celebrating it.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan