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Scruggs, Afi

Jump Rope Magic

40 pp. | Scholastic/Blue Sky | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-590-69327-1 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by David Diaz. Flowing out as if it were one long, hypnotic playground rhyme, the text incorporates the chants of Shameka and her friends jumping double dutch with a view of an elderly neighbor woman who comes out to jump with them and flies into the heavens. This fantastical death is refreshingly joyous, as are Diaz's bold, angular illustrations, rendered in vibrant spring colors.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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