IT'S KWANZAA TIME!

Linda Goss, Clay Goss, , illus. by various artists. . Putnam, $8.99 (72pp) ISBN 978-0-399-23956-4

PW called this a "comprehensive volume," filled with stories (one for each of the holiday's seven days), songs, recipes and crafts projects, as well as entries by Jan Spivey Gilchrist and Eloise Greenfield, and full-page paintings by such artists as Leo and Diane Dillon, Jerry Pinkney and Floyd Cooper. All ages. (Sept.)

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