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Staub, Leslie

Everybody Gets the Blues

32 pp. | Harcourt | January, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-206300-9 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by R. G. Roth. A boy explains how when he's sad, Blues Guy comes and commiserates through song; then they go comfort others ("scary bullies, beauty queens, / little old ladies from New Orleans"), smoothly making the author's point that nobody is immune to sorrow. The art, which employs collage elements, recalls that of Ezra Jack Keats, albeit without his gallant color scheme.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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