Books by Betsy Franco
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review 1: Betsy Franco acknowledges a debt to Mary Zimmerman's play based on Ovid's Metamorphoses--and you can definitely sense more of Zimmerman's tone than Ovid's in this novel. Zimmerman's tongue-in-cheek, over-simplified Ovid rubs me the wrong way, and so I was a bit put off by Franco...
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review 1: How do you define zero? How do you draw a picture of nothing? The author and the illustrator make a valiant attempt in this picture book for ages 5-8. The problem lies in portraying negative space. Zero is the sleds on the hillside when the snow melts. How do you draw them if the...
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review 1: This is a wonderful poetry book for kids. The poems are illustrated in shapes and inside pictures unique to each poem which would delight students while reading. The poems are all about dogs (and a few cats) portraying each animal as an individual in a childlike way which would...