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Publisher: Bollix Books
Release Date:
ISBN: 1932188002
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Genre: Children's fiction [ages 4-8]
Reviewed: 2003
Reviewer: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Reviewer Notes: Reviewer Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the award-winning author of This Is The Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered.

I Only Like What I Like
By Words and Pictures by Julie Baer 

A Gentle Lesson
A Little Boy Who Only Likes What He Likes
Learns to Like Much More

    Julie Baer is an original illustrator but she also knows children.

     I Only Like What I Like is both gentle and humorous. Even small children will be amused and understand-oh, so gently-that being too adamant about one's likes might eliminate much that is good in life, might paint you into a corner that can't be exited all that gracefully.

     I also like that the illustrations allow a parent and child to talk about artistic expression. Does the little boy-one Dewey Jackson Braintree-Berg-look like a real child? Yes…and no.

     How do you suppose this picture was made? Paint? What is a collage? Look at the colors! How did the artist use shapes?

     In short, this book written and illustrated by Julie Baer, is a winner! You and your child will enjoy chuckling over it for many evenings to come!

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