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Fogliano, Julie

When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons

56 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-852-1 $18.99

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Julie Morstad. This collection of nearly fifty poems begins and ends on "march 20" with a blue bird on a flowering tree branch (and with the same poem). In between are poems for days throughout the year. Morstad's gouache and pencil-crayon pictures and Fogliano's poetry are delicately precise, gracefully and economically expressed, and filled with the wonder of genuine childhood experience.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2016