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Stewart, Sarah

The Friend

48 pp. | Farrar | August, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32463-8 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Small. The theme of an underloved white child and an understanding black servant has a significant if complicated presence in American children's books, but the formula isn't resuscitated here. Despite some lyrical moments, the rhyming text is bumpy, imperfectly metered, and awkward. The tender pictures deserve a more direct telling.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2004

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