Home to Me

Lee Bennett Hopkins, Stephen Alcorn. Orchard, $17.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-439-34096-0

From the mountains to the prairies to the... Jersey shore? Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together 15 original works in Home to Me: Poems Across America, illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Contributors include Jane Yolen, Janet S. Wong and Hopkins himself. Alcorn's early Picasso-esque illustrations add an arresting visual counterpoint.

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