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Kate, whose stepmother is pregnant, asks her dad what life will be like when she returns next summer. Small gray paintings illustrate her fears of being pushed aside; adjacent large color paintings show Papa's reassuring answers. The pen-and-ink illustrations carry the narrative using watercolor washes and comfortingly round figures.