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Wong, Janet S.

Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club

40 pp. | McElderry | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-85890-6 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Stacey Schuett. Enlisting an unrhyming text with line breaks, Wong introduces the world of chess, with its tournaments and ratings, cheese puffs and puzzles, triumphs and frustrations, through the experiences of third-grader Alex, who has just joined a chess club. Each face depicted in Schuett's warm gouache and ink paintings reflects a distinct personality and ethnicity, and she manages to make playing chess look exciting.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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