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Payne, Nina

Summertime Waltz

32 pp. | Farrar/Foster | May, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-374-37291-8 $16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska. This book begins with a poem celebrating the nights of summer; individual lines are then illustrated on double-page spreads. The mostly surrealistic art may be off-putting to young readers, but the comforting text ("Smell of the water / on pots of geraniums. / Lovely the lateness / in summertime dark") is appealing.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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