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32 pp.
| Simon |
January, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-689-83179-X$16.95
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Lewis illustrates the text of the traditional African-American spiritual with luminous watercolors that follow a young boy through his day in what appears to be the rural South. The boy invites another child to join a basketball game and helps him make new friends ("Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine"). The paintings are gorgeous if stiff; warm yellows make the book glow.