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Godwin, Laura

Barnyard Prayers

32 pp. | Hyperion | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0355-X $$14.99 | Library ISBN 0-7868-2302-X $$15.49
(1) PS Illustrated by Brian Selznick. A series of eighteen brief poems are, the illustrations reveal, spoken by a "farmer" who is in fact a small city boy putting his toy farm to bed. Each poem is an exercise in empathy; and because they are prayers, they evoke not only the care between child and toy, farmer and animals, and parent and child, but also that between Creator and creature. Acrylic paintings in super-saturated colors suggest an Eden of the imagination.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2000

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