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In nineteenth-century New England, a young girl watches her baby brother learn to walk and talk while waiting for Papa's return from the sea after he joins the China trade and sails to foreign lands.

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9781582462325

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A gently rocking rhymed text takes the voice of a girl who misses her father. In a 19th-century Cape Cod village, she muses on how long a year can seem, while her father plies the China trade and she and her mother live their lives and raise her baby brother. As the baby learns to walk and then to speak, the seasons turn, summer to autumn to winter, until finally in spring Papa returns. The pictures, pencil and watercolor, finished with Photoshop, take the blues and greens of the sea and trace them in walls, quilts, clothing and sky. The cool watery tones match the lulling sound of the verse quite effectively, though the latter occasionally stumbles as it reaches to meet the meter. A four-word glossary - China trade, chops, teak and willowware - calls attention to itself with its brevity. (Picture book. 4-8) (Kirkus Reviews)

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"RA?oL ALL?aN grew up in Valladolid, Spain. He received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca and then moved to Boston to study illustration and design. Ra l's work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Madrid, and Barcelona, and has appeared in ""Rolling Stone"" and ""GQ"" magazines among others. Ra l now lives in Spain. This is his first American picturebook. SUSAN LENDROTH has had a lifelong fascination with history. The seaside setting of OCEAN WIDE, OCEAN DEEP, which follows her first picturebook, WHY EXPLORE?, also pays homage to her love of the ocean. When she's not working on picturebooks, Susan writes essays and freelance travel articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers. She lives in Southern California with her daughter."

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