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Grimes, Nikki

My Man Blue

32 pp. | Dial | May, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2326-1 $$15.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. In fourteen poems, an African-American boy talks about his friend Blue--a man his mother grew up with, who has decided to take young fatherless Damon under his wing. The poems are accessible and filled with imagery, and the intergenerational friendship is believable, though Damon sometimes sounds older than he is. The unsentimental acrylic paintings aptly reflect the poems.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

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