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Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Flower Girl Butterflies

32 pp. | Greenwillow | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-688-17809-X $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-688-17810-3 $$16.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Christiane Kromer. Sarah, who looks about four but sounds older, describes her experience as the flower girl in her aunt's wedding, with all its pleasures and anxieties ("Suppose I trip and fall down?"). The textured mixed-media art shows a joyful African-American family wedding, including Sarah's predictably triumphant walk down the aisle. The writing is banal but captures a wedding from a child's viewpoint.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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