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Quintavalle, Paola

Crescendo

104 pp. | Enchanted Lion | February, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-255-8 $19.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Alessandro Sanna. The narrator addresses a developing human baby, describing the nine months before birth during which "you move in your space, without a sound" and soon "you can sense the light." Sanna's handsome watercolor paintings use the curved silhouette of an expectant mother to connect birth to the wider natural world; the belly becomes a seagull's wings, a shoreline, a hillside, and so on.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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