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Green as a bean

Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kuskin, Karla
Other Authors:	Iwai, Melissa (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Laura Geringer Books, 2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Stories in rhyme.
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Summary:	Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.
Item Description:	"The text of this book was originally published in 1960 under the title Square as a house"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	1 v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	9780060753320 (trade bdg.) 0060753323 (trade bdg.) 9780060753344 (lib. bdg.) 006075334X (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Karla Kuskin was born in Manhattan on July 17, 1932. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Yale University in 1955. Her first book, Roar and More (1956), was the result of her senior graphic-arts project, for which she had to design and print a book on a small press. She was the author or illustrator of more than 50 children's books during her lifetime including In the Middle of the Trees (1958); The Rose on My Cake (1964); The Philharmonic Gets Dressed (1982); The Dallas Titans Get Ready for Bed (1986); Jerusalem, Shining Still (1987); City Dog (1994); The Upstairs Cat (1997); Moon, Have You Met My Mother? (2003); and Traces (2008). She died of cortical basal ganglionic degeneration on August 20, 2009 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography)