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Bahr, Mary

If Nathan Were Here

32 pp. | Eerdmans | April, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5187-8 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Karen A. Jerome. A boy mourns the death of his best friend by thinking of all the fun they had together, choosing something to put in a class memory box, and making overtures toward Nathan's sister. This quiet book is illustrated with soft-focus watercolors and written with a first-person voice full of longing, though death is not overtly mentioned in the text.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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