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Video: Eric Rohmann's 'Last Song'

by Vicky Smith on June 1, 2011 | Posted in Children's
Caldecott Medalist Eric Rohmann’s LAST SONG matches his light, joyful paintings to a brief poem from an early-20th-century Scottish poet, creating the perfect bedtime book for summer evenings. Kirkus' Children's & Teen Editor Vicky Smith sat down with Rohmann to talk about how children see the world, pacing this nearly wordless story and—why squirrels?