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Holbrook, Sara

By Definition: Poems of Feelings

48 pp. | Boyds/Wordsong | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 1-59078-060-4 $$15.95 | Paper ISBN 1-59078-085-X $$8.95
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Scott Mattern. This collection features forty short, often humorous, usually rhyming, sometimes clunky poems about feelings familiar to most preteens: in "Labels," it's noted that "You can't know me by just a look, / you have to take a taste"; in "Sorry," the need to apologize "follows like my shadow, / fastened at the heels." Small and comical if perhaps too-literal black-and-white sketches illustrate each poem. Ind.
Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

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