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How Smudge Came
Average rating
4.2 out of 5
Based on 22 Ratings and 8 Reviews

Book Description


"You respond to the universal pet story before the illustrations show that Cindy is a young woman with Down's syndrome. [This book] is remarkable in telling it as Cindy sees it. Lightburn's realistic pictures in soft-tone colored pencil have the same beautiful sense of fragility, steadfastness, and connection."-Booklist (starred review)
Book Information
PublisherWalker and Company
BindingPaperback (8 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-100802775225
ISBN-13978-0802775221
Publication Date05/01/1997
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About Nan Gregory (Author) : Nan Gregory is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Nan Gregory include Pink, Amber Waiting, Wild Girl and Gran, and I'll Sing You One-O.
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About Ron Lightburn (Illustrator) : Ron Lightburn's career as a children's book illustrator was launched with his Governor General's Award-winning artwork for Waiting for the Whales in 1991. Since then he has illustrated numerous other ... more
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10/1/2007 Andrea & Mark said: "How better to understand our common humanity than to peek at the inner world of another — and find it so like our own? Soft
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