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32 pp.
| Simon |
May, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-689-84223-6$$16.95
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Illustrated by
Greg Couch.
Summer, pictured in the illustrations as a little girl, is so happy that her time has come that she plays instead of monitoring the change of seasons. Mother Earth and Father Time chide her, but she is having too much fun to be responsible. The earth suffers from her neglect until a remorseful Summer returns to her work. The rhyme of the text is forced, but the imaginative acrylic and colored-pencil illustrations are worthy of notice.