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Guettier, Benedicte

The Father Who Had 10 Children

42 pp. | Dial | May, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2446-2 $$15.99
(2) PS Adults will be won over by the on-target depiction of the crushing minutiae of a parent's day ("he helped his 10 children put on 10 little pairs of underpants, 10 little t-shirts, 10 little pairs of jeans, 20 little socks, and 20 little shoes"), but Guettier pitches her presentation--art, simplicity of text, countable objects--to kids. The pictures are a riot of bold, warm-to-hot colors, and minimalist backgrounds concentrate attention on the chaotic tableaux and on the father-children relationship.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 1999

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