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Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Selector

Amazing Places

40 pp. | Lee | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60060-653-3 $18.95

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Chris Soentpiet & Christy Hale. Each of fourteen poems centers on one particular location in the U.S. The focus is as much on people as on scenery, with many of the poems written in the first person. Soentpiet and Hale combine their talents to showcase the special elements of a place as well as the response of people to it. An impressively diverse, polished, and inspiring collection. Information about the sites is appended.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2016