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32 pp.
| Eerdmans
| September, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-8028-5290-4$18.00
(4)
K-3
Frampton introduces Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Fortune has its cookies to give out" by describing how, as a child, Ferlinghetti noticed everything around him. Frampton then reproduces the poem on the following pages, decorated with bold, swirling woodcuts. Although the poem (about children cooling off in the spray of a fire hydrant) has tremendous kid appeal, the introductory framing device is awkward.