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80 pp.
| Sterling |
April, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-8069-7905-4$$17.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Blanche L. Sims.
This well-meaning guide to all things chalk presents the history of chalk, a recipe for making sidewalk chalk, and a myriad of chalk-play ideas. Most useful are the suggested games, such as hopscotch and four square. Many suggestions are fun (drawing a city, making a maze), but some are a bit of a stretch (word search, chalk scrabble), making the whole more than enough of a good thing. Ind.