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SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Priscilla Painton, Richard Zoglin...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Priscilla Painton, Richard Zoglin...
SENIOR WRITERS: George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Priscilla Painton, Richard Zoglin...
Where Are You Going, Manyoni?, by Catherine Stock (Morrow; $15). The pick of a good year: the author, a fine watercolor artist, follows a little Zimbabwean girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave...
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow; $15). Here's a fine choice for a book-loving older child. The story Dickens lived was as dramatic as any he wrote, and the literate text of this fascinating biography deals gently but firmly with his chaotic childhood and disastrous marriage, his spectacular success and the appalling condition of the poor. Detailed illustrations bring 19th century England to life for the young time traveler...