Dear Mother, Dear Daughter - Hardcover

Yolen, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563978865 ISBN 13: 9781563978869

Publisher: WordSong, 2001

Synopsis

Boyds Mills Press publishes a wide range of high-quality fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Yolen has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Golden Kite Award, two Christopher Medals, and both the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota and the Regina Medal for her body of work. In 2011 she was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and St. Andrews, Scotland.

From Booklist:

Gr. 3-5. The poetry here is nothing special. What readers will enjoy are the mother and daughter voices--chatty, warm, irritated, angry--and the family vignettes. Yolen and Stemple, mother and daughter, have always sent each other notes, and Stemple, now a mother of daughters, remembers her preteen questions and complaints. On each left-hand page, a daughter writes to her mom; on the opposite page, her mom writes back. Gil Ashby's realistic, softly brushed pencil illustrations extend the situations with a diverse cast of mothers and daughters, who argue about homework, body image, using the phone. They bargain about staying up late and ear piercing. They help each other through grief and through feeling scared of the dark ("I'm too old for a night-light"). Some girls will see themselves here, and they may want to write their own family conversations. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: WordSong
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1563978865
• ISBN 13: 9781563978869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32