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24 pp.
| Eerdmans |
February, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5303-5$16.00
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
David A. Johnson.
The narrator alternately describes her public shyness ("I don't catch the Frisbee. / I just let it fall") and her private fearlessness ("I dance. / I leap and I spin and I prance"). The patterns of her rhymes harmonize with the dynamically illustrated spreads, in which the girl sometimes appears multiple times--a fitting comment on the many aspects of oneself.