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40 pp.
| Dial |
January, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3688-7$16.99
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Illustrated by
Jen Corace.
"A patch of light! / One final peck. / I give a shove and s-t-r-e-t-c-h my neck." With some unusual visual perspectives, the earth-toned ink, pencil, and watercolor illustrations depict an infant killdeer bird pushing out of its eggshell and frolicking in its new world. The first-person conversational rhymes chronicling the enthusiastic fledgling's discoveries are often awkward and lumbering.