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"The timeless quality of
Tavares's black-and-white pencil illustrations is in perfect pitch with
the story's setting and theme. Close-up images of Zachary convincingly
convey the boy's elation in his moments of ball-playing triumph-- a
feeling with which young baseball fans will surely identify." -Publishers Weekly
"ZACHARY'S BALL, by Matt Tavares, is a magical book. Incredibly intricate pencil illustrations pull the reader into Zachary's special baseball world... A book your child will want to hear again and again." - Boston Herald "The children seem lit from within by their and Tavares's love of the game." -Yankee Magazine |
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