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32 pp.
| Viking |
October, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-670-83453-X$$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Wendy Watson.
Twenty-five brief poems with the cadence of nursery rhymes capture the many moods of amore from courting to quarreling and everything in between. Many of the rhymes derive a quiet vigor from Watson's nod to love's pitfalls as well as its pleasures--an acknowledgment that will escape the collection's intended audience. Softly sketched animal characters have a quaint, old-fashioned appeal.