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Sandburg, Carl Lobel, Anita, Illustrator

Not Everyday an Aurora Borealis for Your Birthday: A Love Poem

18 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-679-88170-0 | Library ISBN 0-679-98170-5
(4) K-3 In Sandburg's never-before-published poem, a young man smitten by love goes to Herculean lengths to bring his sweetheart an aurora borealis as a birthday gift. Echoing Sandburg's description of the Northern Lights as "shimmering and swimmering," the whimsical paintings depict a gauzy and ever-changing veil of chromatic luminescence. While charmingly executed in words and pictures, the concept of love as a struggle may appeal most to YAs and adults.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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