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48 pp.
| HarperCollins/B+B |
May, 2019 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-239344-9$17.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Sarah Jacoby.
Barnett is openly admiring of Brown's legacy in this picture-book biography. In forty-two pages (because Brown lived forty-two years), he weaves facts about her life with information on how her books were received, in particular by notable librarian Anne Carroll Moore. Barnett conveys the sense that Brown's stories felt as strange and wondrous as life itself can be. Jacoby's mixed-media illustrations are appropriately impressionistic and playful. Bib.