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Piven, Hanoch

My Best Friend Is as Sharp as a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | May, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-85338-8 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-95629-4 $20.99
(3) K-3 A girl answers her grandmother's barrage of questions about school by skipping the "same old boring answers" and creating amusing pictures of her teachers and classmates instead. Everyday objects characteristic of each person get incorporated into the exuberant collage portraits. Colorful and chock-full of similes, this title will likely launch engaging classroom language and art activities.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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