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Greenberg, Polly

Oh Lord, I Wish I Was a Buzzard

32 pp. | North-South/SeaStar | February, 2002 | Trade ISBN 1-58717-122-8 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 1-58717-123-6 $$15.88
1968, Macmillan
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Aliki. A little African-American girl works in the cotton fields alongside her sharecropper father, hoping to earn a sucker if she picks enough cotton. While the young audience for whom the book is intended will need some historical context, Aliki's red and bronze paintings depict the workers and the rural setting with beauty and dignity.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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