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32 pp.
| Chronicle |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8118-6615-6$16.99 Reissue (1956, Harcourt)
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Paul Rand.
In poetic text, an offstage child narrator lists some of the many things she knows--from the most basic ("a cat goes meow") to the more abstract ("a leaf can be a ferry for a snail"). Paul Rand's simply composed, ahead-of-their-time illustrations don't look the least bit dated and perfectly reflect the concepts raised in the text.