A Winter Place

Ruth Yaffe Radin. Little Brown and Company, $6.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-316-73219-2

O'Kelley is an artist whose naive paintings are proudly exhibited in American galleries. The pictures mark her debut in a book celebrating the life of a family in a hilly, pastoral community. Radin's ballad describes the activities so harmoniously that, PW remarked, ""the text and illustrations seem like the creation of one extraordinarily talented person.'' Reading Rainbow choice. (All ages)

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