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From: Levine, Arthur <ALevine>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:53:43 -0500
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's THE HICKORY CHAIR, illustrated by Benny Andrews is a rare picture book on a few fronts. The warm extended family is African-American, though this is not a story about race. And the protagonist is blind, though this is not a story about disability. It IS a story about one young man's love for his grandmother, and how that love comes back to him unexpectedly when he himself is old.
It's a marvelous text, and Andrews's pictures are full of life.
Received on Fri 15 Nov 2002 03:53:43 PM CST
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:53:43 -0500
Lisa Rowe Fraustino's THE HICKORY CHAIR, illustrated by Benny Andrews is a rare picture book on a few fronts. The warm extended family is African-American, though this is not a story about race. And the protagonist is blind, though this is not a story about disability. It IS a story about one young man's love for his grandmother, and how that love comes back to him unexpectedly when he himself is old.
It's a marvelous text, and Andrews's pictures are full of life.
Received on Fri 15 Nov 2002 03:53:43 PM CST
