DAISY AND THE DOLL

Michael Medearis, Angela Shelf Medearis, DAISY AND THE DOLLMichael Med. , $7.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-916718-23-7

"The husband-and-wife authors adopt the crisp and amiable voice of eight-year-old Daisy Turner, a former slave's daughter who was born in Vermont in 1883, to relate a story based on a true incident" said PW . "Johnson's spare representational paintings capture the narrative's emotion-charged tenor." Ages 6-10. (Apr.)

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