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32 pp.
| Pajama
| March, 2019
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TradeISBN 978-1-77278-068-0$18.95
(2)
K-3
Paula's father tells her, "I can't get up just yet. I'm sad." Undaunted, Paula "know[s] what to do." Paula's picture of a sailboat becomes the stage for an imaginary father-daughter sea-set adventure ("Mommy would want us to"). Dufft's art combines Paula's childlike, primary-color paintings and more realistically rendered figures depicting characters and background settings. The text doesn't gloss over the different ways parents and children can grieve.