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School Library Journal Review

K-Gr 2-Small, very simple series titles. Each book (except Drinking Water) begins with a colorful drawing of and comments on the food-guide pyramid. A full-color, full-page photograph on the left side reinforces the one-to-two line text on the right. The texts employ repetitive vocabulary appropriate for beginning readers. In Fruit Group, for example, fruit is defined and examples are given: "Apples are in the fruit group." Turn the page: "Bananas are in the fruit group," etc. Children depicted in the photographs represent a range of ethnic backgrounds. The nutrition information in these books is rudimentary, but it can give early readers an understanding of the importance of eating properly.-Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Author Helen Frost was born in Brookings, South Dakota in 1949. She received a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education with an English concentration from Syracuse University and a Masters degree in English from Indiana University. She has taught writing from pre-school through university and has published poetry, children's books, anthologies, a play, and a book about teaching writing.

Skin of a Fish, Bones of a Bird, a collection of poetry, won the Women Poets Series Competition in 1993. Poems from that collection were awarded the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and the Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America. She worked with the Fort Wayne YWCA and the Fort Wayne Youtheatre to help high school students write about how they had been affected by violence. This workshop led to a play and an anthology of student writing, both entitled Why Darkness Seems So Light. Keesha's House was awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association in 2004.

(Bowker Author Biography)