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Rockliff, Mara. Pieces of Another World. Illus. Salima Alikhan. Mt. Plesant SC: SylvanDell, 2005.

Father and daughter share the late night adventure of a trip out of town to see ".some pieces from another world." The reader follows the daughter's excited anticipation of something wondrous revealed at night-something very special. What could the vision be? Shooting stars--showers of them! The father escorts his appreciative daughter into another world right here on earth-and subtly models a close, caring relationship.

Alikhan's watercolors brilliantly picture the story. Her owl, her deer, her skies are richly depicted, and a lovely dreamy painting of the child floating in the sky with the prancing stars ends the fine collaboration.

A. Allison, March 2006

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