Anna Grossnickle Hines
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Rich, luminous fabrics. Eleven miles of thread. An uncountable number of stitches. Clear, sparkling words. With these ingredients Anna Grossnickle Hines celebrates the lights that brighten the darkest season of our year. In poems and quilts she captures each heartening glow and flicker, from the moon and aurora borealis to the holiday lights of Santa Lucia, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year to one lone candle and a hidden flashlight...
3) Got you!
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Sam's older brother Mike keeps fooling him, but Sam thinks of a way to turn the tables.
10) I am a backhoe
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A young boy imagines himself to be different types of trucks as he plays in the sand.
12) Big like me
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A boy tells his baby sister all the things he will show her as she grows, from snow and bouncing high to making faces and blowing out candles.
15) My own big bed
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A child proudly shows off her very own brand new big bed while also telling herself that she can deal with fears about sleeping in it for the first time.
18) Gramma's walk
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Donnie and his grandmother, who is in a wheelchair, take an imagined walk to the seashore and smell the salty breeze, walk barefoot on the warm sand, observe animals, and build a sand castle.