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Lester, Julius

What a Truly Cool World

32 pp. | Scholastic | February, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-590-86468-8 $$15.95
(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. In this take-off on a tale recorded in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, God walks around in house slippers, has a wife named Irene, and a secretary named Bruce. After the earth is created, Shaniqua (the angel in charge of everybody's business) decides the earth is boring and helps God create butterflies. The language is contemporary, colloquial, and humorous, and Cepeda's colorful, stylized illustrations capture the spirit of what Lester calls a "black storytelling voice."
Reviewer: Rudine Sims Bishop | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

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