A Country Far Away

Nigel Gray. Andersen Press, $11.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-86264-860-2

In what PW called ""an extraordinary book,"" one or two lines of text per spread describe a day in the life of two very different boys--one is pictured in cartoon panels in a rural African village (above the text), the other is pictured in a Western European city (below). Ages 4-8. (Dec.)

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