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Title: "Whiter than the milk in a cereal bowl"?
Review: If that is the kind of metaphor that constitutes "great writing" (let alone POETRY!), then we are in some serious trouble. Compare this to Robert Louis Stevenson, or a.a. Milne, or - on the art front, Jessie Wilcox Smith or N.C. Wyeth. Curious George (originals) blow this out of the water. If you want a little beat poetry, at least go with Margaret Brown's Little Fur Family. This is a great example of the typical "dumbing down" of culture in our society. I will no longer be using Caldecott medals as indicators of quality.
