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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

by John Ciardi · 1961

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'Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings.' —BL.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 64 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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