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Spinelli, Eileen

Summerbath Winterbath

32 pp. | Eerdmans | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5179-7 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Elsa Warnick. Using poetic language, Spinelli describes the daily routines that led up to Althea's bath when she was a child in the early 1900s: in summer, she used a washtub containing sun-warmed pump water; in winter, she bathed behind a sheet in the washtub in the kitchen. The book somehow manages nostalgia without sentimentality. Fittingly, the accomplished, soft-hued watercolor illustrations seem of another era.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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