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Who Is Ben?
By Zolotow, Charlotte & Jacobi, Kathy
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06027-351-4
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1997.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1997
PreS-Gr 1 A picture book that seems disturbing and flawed for the intended audience. Ben looks out into the night from his darkened bedroom window, thinking existential thoughts: "He felt he was all there was. He felt he was not really here. He was really the blackness itself, smooth and velvety and dark and safe." When his mother turns on the light, Ben asks her where he was before he was born. But he feels the answer, "he had been part of that strange trembling huge blackness with no light and no sound,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
