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32 pp.
| Holiday |
September, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1988-6$16.95
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Illustrated by
Lynn Rowe Reed.
"Sun comes up.... / Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! / Dusty little / street cleaner / swishes down / the street." A lyrical, onomatopoeic, vaguely rhyming text describes a typical day in the city. The book features great verbal and visual thumbnails ("Man walks his dog--dog walks his man"), but both the verse and the acrylic art occasionally test the line between exuberance and chaos.