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Swanson, Susan Marie

To Be like the Sun

32 pp. | Harcourt | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-205796-1 $16.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine. "Hello, little seed...Do you really know everything about sunflowers?" A girl communes with a sunflower seed as she plants and tends it; come autumn, she says goodbye to the flower. The poetic observations are often lovely ("a sunflower seed / is smaller than a word"), and the handsome, blocky illustrations, which employ printmaking techniques, are themselves a wonder.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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