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Carter, Dorothy

Wilhe'mina Miles after the Stork Night

32 pp. | Farrar/Foster | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-33551-6 $$16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Harvey Stevenson. Alone with her pregnant mother, going-on-eight Sugar Plum must race across the nighttime terrain for Mis' Hattie, the midwife. The next day, Mama recognizes that her daughter has grown beyond the "secret way of talking to children about a big wonderment," and that it's also time to call her by her real name, Wilhe'mina. Daubs of bold color transform the southern setting into a van Gogh spectacle and reflect the emotional intensity of the narrative.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999