WAKE UP HOUSE!: Rooms Full of Poems

Dee Lillegard, , illus. by Don Carter. . Random/Dragonfly, $6.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41752-1

In a starred review, PW wrote, "The 34 brief, playful poems of this visually striking book personify a cheery yellow house and the objects within it. The book performs the marvelous alchemy of transforming the most everyday objects into focal points of imaginative worlds." Ages 4-8. (Sept.)

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