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Singer, Marilyn

I'm Getting a Checkup

32 pp. | Clarion | September, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-618-99000-9 $16.00

(3) PS Illustrated by David Milgrim. Three children and their parents visit the doctor for routine physicals. Quatrains and couplets describe each patient's experience: "First I step onto the scale. / Nurse, what does it say? / Tell me, just how many pounds / do I weigh today?" Bold-faced prose paragraphs provide factual information, and thickly outlined illustrations feature lots of smiling faces and five frolicking rabbits.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges