DEAR MOTHER, DEAR DAUGHTER: Poems for Young People
by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Gil Ashby.
Boyds Mills
ISBN: 1563978865
Ages 10-12
40 pages
Accomplished author Yolen and her real-life daughter create a book that any mom and daughter can relate to. This collection of 17 pairs of poems --- each spread features a "Dear Mother" poem by Stemple on the left and a "Dear Daughter" poem by Yolen on the right --- tackles all the sensitive coming-of-age issues every family faces. Poems about the battles over doing homework, cleaning a bedroom, body image, talking on the phone --- they're all here. And readers will especially enjoy the realistic tone and comforting support found throughout.
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