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Kurtz, Jane

Faraway Home

32 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-15-200036-4 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. As he prepares to visit his homeland, a father gently comforts his daughter with his memories of life in Ethiopia. Desta has trouble picturing her father's childhood--thousands of flamingos, a house with no electricity, walking barefoot to school--but eventually understands that he misses his old home and that he will come back. Details in the watercolor illustrations extend the text's poetic prose.
Reviewer: Henrietta M. Smith

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