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Hest, Amy

Mr. George Baker

32 pp. | Candlewick | August, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-1233-2 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jon J Muth. Young narrator Harry enjoys spending time with his one-hundred-year-old neighbor, a drummer named George Baker. The unlikely friends have little in common except for the fact that they are both learning to read and they take the same bus to school. The watercolors capture the slow, graceful elegance of the elderly black man, and if the story isn't entirely believable, it is tender and lovely.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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