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Come on into my tropical garden
poems for children
By Nichols, Grace & Binch, Caroline
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39732-349-4
- Publisher
- New York : Lippincott, 1990.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1990
Gr 3-5 Nichols paints a portrait of a Caribbean childhood with these brief, simple poems about the pleasures of a "sweet rainwashed/ sunripe mango," the parakeets that "wheel/ screech/ scream/ in a flash of green/ among the forest trees," and the alligator--"She's a-big. She's a-mean. She's a-wild"--living at the "muddy slush...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
