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Winters, Kay

Did You Hear What I Heard?: Poems About School

40 pp. | Dial | February, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-53898-8 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Patrice Barton. Thirty-five poems cover the school year, from "Bus Stop" to "Sing a Song of Summer," with lots of everyday experiences in between. Winters's poems are short, mostly upbeat, and funny, and she playfully uses punctuation and capitalization for emphasis and to create pauses. Barton's digital pictures feature exuberant and active children who seem to be around first grade–age, with a range of skin colors and ethnicities.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018