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32 pp.
| Holiday |
April, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-2356-9$16.95
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Illustrated by
Brad Sneed.
"Old stairs creak. / Come fast as you can. / Ham pop-pops / In the frying pan." Onomatopoeia-flecked rhymes describe a typical day with a farm family that suggests the Brady Bunch in the Waltons' time (and clothing). The rhymes have the easy gait of a country song, and the American regionalist–style watercolor paintings invest the characters with simple-folk dignity.