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Ne’er-Do-Well

The writer’s life in Rapscallion Jones by James Marshall.

The art of forgiveness in Maggie and the Pirate by Ezra Jack Keats.

Starting the conversation in Walk This World by Lotta Nieminen.

... and an exaltation of larks in Ounce Dice Trice by Alastair Reid and Ben Shahn.

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Gravity is nothing in Hey Willy, See the Pyramids by Maira Kalman.

Excellent elementary exercises in Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher.

If you knew where there were some mountains, you would definitely climb them.

The sound and the fury in Elbert’s Bad Word.

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Through salt-pans and reed-beds and blue gums and spinifex.