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PreS-Gr 3 With these 21 offerings, Greenfield celebrates the poet and the written word. The book opens solidly with the title piece, which has a childlike, balanced cadence: "In the land/of words, /I stand as still/as a tree, /and let the words/rain down on me." Its lovely metaphor is strikingly well realized in Gilchrist's fabric-art illustration. A tree trunk laid down the middle acts as a bridge between the facing pages, with the image of a child standing with arms upraised on one side and the text set against white space on the other. Mo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More