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Wood, Douglas

Aunt Mary's Rose

32 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-1090-6 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. More sermon than story, Wood's text describes his family's care for one another and for a rosebush over several generations. The explicitly (and repetitively) stated message, which a young Wood learns from his great-aunt Mary, is that nurturing something (or someone) invests both caregiver and the cared for with part of the other's essence. Warm watercolor illustrations show scenes of the Wood family, both past and present.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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