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Desimini, Lisa

My Beautiful Child

32 pp. | Scholastic/Blue Sky | May, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-439-45893-5 $$16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Matt Mahurin. Different parents enumerate the many things they long to share with their children. The list includes such intimacies as "how soft a blanket can be" to the enormity of "how much I love you." Desimini's spare poetic text is paired with dramatic illustrations, which help make concrete the abstract concepts of the text. Even so, both art and text feel stiff and distant.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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