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32 pp.
| Holt |
July, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-7893-2$15.95
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After presenting a simple introduction to Peace Day, Katz shows eleven children from around the globe ("Meena lives in India") and their respective words for peace ("Meena says shanti [SHAHN-tee]"). As in all of Katz's blandly worded books, the selling point is her unmistakable eye-popping mixed-media art, an improbably successful mesh of flat, childlike renderings and fussy patterns.