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On Crescent Dragonwagon's "Over and Over"

zolotow_overandover_222x300Published on our website in 2012 as part of The Horn Book's celebration of Picture Book Month, Over and Over is Crescent Dragonwagon's achingly beautiful tribute to her mother, legendary children's book editor and author, Charlotte Zolotow. When Crescent wrote this piece, Charlotte was ninety-seven and in failing health; her mother's picture book Over and Over, written, Crescent says, when Charlotte "was forty-two and I was four" sparks memories and reflections on loss, renewal, cycles, and change. We are grateful that the author's daughter shared this eloquent glimpse into her mother's life and work.

p.s.: read Roger's obituary for Charlotte, who died in November 2013.

Kitty Flynn

Kitty Flynn is reviews editor for The Horn Book, Inc.

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