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The Sign Painter
By Say, Allen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39597-974-7
- Publisher
- Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 24, 2000
Gr 3-5 Puzzling is perhaps the best way to describe this latest offering from one of our most talented illustrators. The quirky, quasi-surreal tale begins with a young Asian-American man disembarking from a bus in a strange town. It's early in the morning and he makes his way to a sign shop where he asks for employment. When he tells the owner that he can paint, he's put to work. The two men soon receive a mysterious commission to paint a dozen billboards along a lonesome road running through the desert. The subject of the billboards is a blonde wom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
