Sara's City |
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Author:
| Alexander, Sue |
Illustrator:
| Himler, Ronald |
ISBN: | 978-0-395-64483-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | Clarion Books |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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Based on the author's own childhood, this collection of poems for very young children vividly captures the experiences of a young girl growing up in Chicago in the 1940s. Sue Alexander's brief, unrhymed vignettes and Ron Himler's exquisite watercolors follow the little girl as she eats her cinnamon-toast breakfast, carefully avoids sidewalk cracks on the way to school, sails paper boats in rainy- day puddles, rides the El downtown with Mama, and listens to her favorite radio program...
More DescriptionBased on the author's own childhood, this collection of poems for very young children vividly captures the experiences of a young girl growing up in Chicago in the 1940s. Sue Alexander's brief, unrhymed vignettes and Ron Himler's exquisite watercolors follow the little girl as she eats her cinnamon-toast breakfast, carefully avoids sidewalk cracks on the way to school, sails paper boats in rainy- day puddles, rides the El downtown with Mama, and listens to her favorite radio program with Daddy before bedtime.