GIRLS AND BOYS COME OUT TO PLAY
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Using the popular “ Girls and Boys Come Out to Play ” Mother Goose poem as a backdrop , illustrator Tracey Campbell Pearson spins an exciting visual narrative in which Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play , taking them on a moonlit adventure in verse .
Tracey Campbell Pearson has written and illustrated many books for children , including The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson which was a Booklist Editor ’ s Choice and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and Elephant ’ s Story , which was an ABC Best Book for Children . “ Girls and Boys Come Out to Play ” is her first book with Holiday House . She lives in Vermont .
Publisher : Holiday House holidayhouse . com Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Tracey Campbell Pearson
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