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Spinelli, Eileen

While You Are Away

32 pp. | Hyperion | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0972-8 $$15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Renee Graef. In three discrete sections, three children (one black, once white, one Hispanic) address their thoughts to a parent off serving in the military, describing what their lives are like at home and envisioning the parent's homecoming. Both the text and tender colored-pencil illustrations have a mildly saccharine quality, but the book should comfort young readers who miss their parents--for any reason.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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