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Sperring, Mark

The Sunflower Sword

32 pp. | Andersen | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7613-7486-2 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Miriam Latimer. A "knight" (a kid with a colander on his head) wants to fight dragons using a sword; his mom won't let him. Her sunflower alternative is met with skepticism until the boy's imagination takes over. Sperring may have a pacifist agenda, but the preachiness is refreshingly minimal. Latimer gives the child's fantasy life a cartoonishly loose medieval treatment.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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