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Swanson, Susan Marie

The First Thing My Mama Told Me

40 pp. | Harcourt | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201075-0 $$16.00
(3) PS Illustrated by Christine Davenier. Seven-year-old Lucy recounts childhood memories that all center on the importance of her name: her uncle building her a stool and painting her name on it, eating alphabet pancakes that spell her name, stomping her name in the snow. The impressionistic paintings suit the poetic writing style in this book that is more a mood piece than a story.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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