Miranda's father is an artist who is so delighted with her smile that he decides to paint her portrait--but when Miranda's front tooth falls out, and she must come up with a clever idea to save the day.

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PreSchool-Grade 2-Miranda's father is an artist. As they share homemade chocolate-chip cookies during one of her regular visits to his studio, he comments on her smile. Before you can say "Mona Lisa," she's posing and he's sketching. But capturing the smile proves difficult, and the problem is compounded when the little girl looses a tooth. Amidst tears (hers) and frowns (his), he discovers the solution: the smile is really in her eyes. All ends well as they bite into a fresh batch of cookies. This is a quiet story. The juxtaposition of one centered paragraph on a white page with a framed, staged composition on the facing page yields a somewhat static result. The figures, however, have a pearl-like glow; enhanced by soft, shadowy backgrounds, they invite lingering looks that synchronize perfectly with the pace of the text. As with all of Locker's titles, whatever their plots, the subject is art. Here, his style evokes 17th-century Dutch portraiture and domestic genre scenes. Present this with Johnny Alcorn's Rembrandt's Beret (Tambourine, 1991) or Diane Stanley's The Gentleman and the Kitchen Maid (Dial, 1994) and Anthea Peppin's People in Art (Millbrook, 1992) for classroom units. One-on-one sharing is sure to bring smiles of delight.
Wendy Lukehart, Dauphin County Library, Harrisburg, PA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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