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32 pp.
| Princeton |
April, 2019 |
TradeISBN 978-1-61689-813-7$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Seng Soun Ratanavanh.
A young girl invites readers to join her in imaginative play and enumerates the ways she enjoys her (pretend) "island": she tames a snail, hosts luncheons for her animal friends, arranges flowers, and sings. The spare text (translated from the French) adds little to what is essentially a decorative paean to imagination; the attractive art cleverly incorporates stitched red thread outlines.