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Coming autumn 2014, the jacket is a fresh, lovely picture book from debut author, kirsten hall, and debut illustrator, dasha tolstikova. After college, where she majored in english and minored in child development, hall taught preschool, kindergarten, and 2nd grade while earning a degree in early childhood education in nyus masters program. A sweet illustrated metastory about how we fall in love with books. Georgie by robert bright picture book puppet theater. Chronicle books 20200317 novelty book 16 pages isbn10. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards.
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