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Fletcher, Ralph

Relatively Speaking: Poems about Family

42 pp. April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-531-30141-9 $$14.95 | Library ISBN 0-531-33141-5 $$15.99
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop. Forty-two first-person, free verse poems form a believable portrait of an eleven-year-old boy's family life. The verse covers experiences from the ordinary to the traumatic to the joyful: in one poem, the narrator finds a friend's family meals more interesting than his own; "Broken Ice" tells of a brother's near-drowning; a baby sister is marveled over in "New Baby." The poems are accompanied by occasional black-and-white line drawings.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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