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What color is Caesar?

Caesar sets out to discover if he is a white dog with black spots or a black dog with white spots, but asking other black and white creatures only confuses him further.

Main Author:	Kumin, Maxine, 1925-
Other Authors:	Friend, Allison (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Edition:	1st Candlewick Press ed.
Subjects:	Dogs > Juvenile fiction. Color > Juvenile fiction. Animals > Juvenile fiction. Picture books for children.

Summary:	Caesar sets out to discover if he is a white dog with black spots or a black dog with white spots, but asking other black and white creatures only confuses him further.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
Audience:	002-005.
ISBN:	9780763634322 0763634328
Author Notes:	Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography)

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