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Smith, Dana Kessimakis

A Brave Spaceboy

32 pp. | Hyperion/Jump | April, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0933-7 $15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Freeman. A little boy copes with moving to a new home by pretending that he is a space boy about to "zoom to Mars." It's a sound premise, but a nonrhyming narrative would have served the story better than the merely serviceable rhymes do. The illustrations have a synthetic quality, but they do capture children's apprehension about facing the new.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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