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Plourde, Lynn

Wild Child

32 pp. | Simon | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81552-2 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Mother Earth's wild child is prolonging her bedtime. Finally, we learn that the child is Autumn, and that her slumber means the awakening of another wild child: Winter. The swirling text, which uses rhyme, alliteration, repetition, and made-up words ("Puckery, smuckery, crimsony cranberries"), rarely hits a false note. The lush, gauzy illustrations capture both autumn's colors and the haziness that precedes sleep.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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