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40 pp.
| Eerdmans |
September, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-8028-5207-6$$17.00
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Bill Farnsworth.
The author celebrates the life of the Pennsylvania Dutch in seventeen poems. Accompanied by handsome oil paintings that feature scenes of nature, the verses emphasize the connection between the people and the land. Because almost all of the free-verse poems have a similar sound and structure--two or three stanzas composed of short lines with many adjectives--they become a bit tedious when read all at once and will be best appreciated when experienced individually.