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24 pp.
| Whitman |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-8075-7545-3
(4)
K-3
Photographs by
Eric Futran.
Warm, engaging color photographs lend weight and specificity to general statements about people doing good works, e.g., "Somewhere today...someone is visiting a friend who is old." Although the final scene, in which a child sits reading a copy of "Somewhere Today," is rather self-congratulatory, the book generally gets its message across in an unforcibly multicultural fashion.