Beatrice's Goat
Page McBrier. Aladdin Paperbacks, $7.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-689-86990-7
PW called ""an uplifting picture book"" inspired by actual events, a girl longs to attend school but instead must tend to her younger siblings and help her mother in the fields. Everything starts to change when the family receives a goat. ""Sunny acrylic paintings capture the hues of dusty thatched huts and verdant banana groves of the African landscape."" Ages 4-8. (July)
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Reviewed on: 06/21/2004
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 40 pages - 978-0-689-82460-9
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 40 pages - 978-1-4424-4969-5
Prebound-Other - 34 pages - 978-1-4176-3045-5
Prebound-Sewn - 978-0-606-30739-0