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32 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine |
March, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-439-06302-7$$15.95
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Delicately lined and colored artwork, framed on midnight blue pages, arranges placid naturalistic images in a countdown from ten to one, apparently as imagined by a child drifting off to sleep. Details such as the numbers themselves being shaped from groups of stars make the book lovely to look at, if not very substantive.