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32 pp.
| Eerdmans |
March, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5340-0$16.00
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Mary Newell DePalma.
In summertime, a mouse peppers his mother with autumn questions (e.g., "Will I leap laughing into leaves / heaped high in the backyard?"). Patiently, she urges him to savor the now: "You can tippy-toe into the gurgling surf... / There are soap bubbles to blow..." Spinelli's lyrical text evokes both seasons, while DePalma's luminous acrylics show the mice reveling in summer activities.