I Know a Lady

Charlotte Zolotow. Greenwillow Books, $6.99 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-688-11519-7

Touching and gentle, this deceptively simple tale concerns a girl who muses about a kindhearted neighborhood senior. Ages 4-up. (May)

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