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40 pp.
| Sleeping Bear
| May, 2007
|
TradeISBN 978-1-58536-313-1$17.95
(4)
K-3
Tales of Young Americans series.
Illustrated by
Tammy Yee.
In Rudy the young title character rides the rails during the Great Depression, and Quilt is about the 1946 Hawaiian tsunami. The plots are bland; Quilt is message-driven and Rudy doesn't really have an ending, but they both impart some historical information. The illustrations in Quilt are colorful but stiff, while the paintings in Rudy are muted and impressionistic. Review covers these Tales of Young Americans titles: The Tsunami Quilt and Rudy Rides the Rails.