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Best, Cari

Goose's Story

32 pp. | Farrar/Kroupa | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32750-5 $$16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Holly Meade. Animated paper collage enhances this story of an injured Canada goose that lands with a flock on a girl's pond. With empathetic language, Best tells the story from the girl's point of view. The girl watches the geese and notices how the one that lost a foot is ostracized by the rest. In September, all the geese are gone. Next March, the girl sees her goose no longer shunned but part of a family--one that by book's end includes seven babies.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002