My Girl Power Journal My Girl Power Journal

Kelli Chipponeri. Little Simon, $7.99 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84049-4

Several books aimed at girls cover everything from birth to biography. My Girl Power Journal by Kelli Chipponeri, illus. by Shelly Meridith, begins with a blank page for baby pictures and places to fill in birth statistics and makes room to cover family facts, friends and musings on the future. Full-color drawings, brief bios of ""cool chicks"" such as S.E. Hinton, Maya Angelou and Anne Frank, and a pink vinyl cover with a Velcro closure (plus a pink pen) round out the presentation. ( Feb.)

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