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48 pp.
| HarperCollins/B+B
| June, 2018
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-236825-6$18.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Nikki McClure.
With terrific enthusiasm for his subject, musician-author Meloy uses rhyming verse to tell Seeger's story, paying equal tribute to the singer's musical and activist efforts. The text is by turns clever, cute, and exhausting. Bannerlike gold bands emblazoned with song lyrics festoon McClure's striking cut-paper art in black, white, and gold. Recommended listening and notes are appended. Timeline. Bib.
32 pp.
| Abrams
| March, 2014
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4197-1024-7$17.95
(4)
PS
Illustrated by
Nikki McClure.
Lyrics to the musician-author's lullaby, downloadable on the publisher's website, make for spare, bedtime-suited text, despite some disjointed page-broken sentences ("Dreams of sand out in some desert wide, / That will blow all day into the night, / And there will come a new dune"). McClure's dreamy torn- and cut-paper art in mostly blues pitch in on the lulling tone.
32 pp.
| Abrams
| March, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8109-8321-2$17.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Nikki McClure.
"A day is a perfect piece of time / to live a life, / to plant a seed, / to watch the sun go by." Striking black-and-white cut-paper illustrations against alternating yellow or blue backgrounds follow a farm boy throughout his day. Rylant's graceful text about the possibilities each day holds encourages readers to "live it well, make it count."