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Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Selector

Home to Me: Poems across America

48 pp. | Scholastic/Orchard | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-439-34096-9 $$17.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. Fifteen poems have been created especially for this celebration of diverse home places. The poems range from the prairie to the sea, from the desert to the mountains, from a houseboat to an apartment. The verse forms are basic--couplets and quatrains predominate. The meanings of the easy-to-read-aloud poems are extended in Alcorn's bright, abstract, geometrically designed paintings.

Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003