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Lund, Deb

Tell Me My Story, Mama

40 pp. | HarperCollins | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-06-028876-0 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-06-028877-9 $$16.89
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata. A girl asks her mother to tell her the story of her birth, which, based on her interjections ("And then there was a snowstorm"), she has clearly heard before. Illustrated in a muted palette, the book is notable for the specifity of Mama's account and for the final revelation that Mama is pregnant: as Mama notes, the baby will have "its own story."
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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