First Food Fight This Fall and Other School Poems
(Sterling, 2008)
Poems about school seen through the eyes of a group of students.
Illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa.
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A little girl goes shoe shopping with her mother, told in poems and prose.
Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata.
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The city is rumbling, banging, beeping, but baby keeps on sleeping.
Illustrated by Carll Cneut.
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Episodic poems depicting one family’s camping trip as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
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