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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Schwartz, Howard, Reteller

Before You Were Born

32 pp. | Roaring Brook/Brodie | April, 2005 | Trade ISBN 1-59643-028-1 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Kristina Swarner. A Jewish midrash, or Rabbinic legend, is recast as a bedtime story offering an explanation of the indentation above a child's lip and an imaginative description of a guardian angel, who whispers the world's secrets to each new child. Mixed-media illustrations, with objects floating in a Chagallian landscape, serve as an intermediary between the sometime high-flown language and child readers.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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