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Mercer, Peggy

There Came a Soldier

32 pp. | Handprint | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59354-192-7 $17.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ron Mazellan. "The tall man...yelled, 'Who will fight for his country, brave and true?' Papa shouted, 'I will, sir!'" Mercer tells of a World War II soldier whose childhood experiences prepared him for combat (e.g., jumping from a hayloft parallels jumping from an airplane). The text is overly earnest, but Mazellan's realistic illustrations capture the soldier's experiences.
Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

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