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Johnston, Tony

That Summer

32 pp. | Harcourt | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201585-X $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Barry Moser. A young boy describes coming to terms with his brother's death of an undisclosed illness. The lyrical text, laid out as verse, is disturbing (the narrator learns to "make a bed with your brother / in it, / your brother still / as a whisper") and moving (Gram helps the dying boy stitch a quilt showing things he loved). Moser's remarkable graphite on gray paper illustrations resemble snapshots of this family in happier times.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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