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Collins, Suzanne

Year of the Jungle

40 pp. | Scholastic | September, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-42516-2 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by James Proimos. Collins tells a story based on her own childhood, the year her father was deployed in Vietnam and she began first grade. Throughout the book, scenes of Suzy's everyday life alternate with wordless spreads from Suzy's imagination, as her benign picture of the Vietnam jungle begins to morph into something more realistic. An understated, extremely effective home-front story.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2014

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