If You Listen
by Charlotte Zolotow
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A mother reassures her little girl there is a way to know that someone far away loves you.Tags
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This story was my favorite book out of all of them. I went and bought it as soon as I heard about it. This story is about a little girl whose father is far away. The story begins when the little girl asks her mother, "How do you know if someone far away is loving you?" The story unfolds with the mother telling her daughter to stop and listen when she is lonely. The mother assures her daughter that just because you cannot hear or see someone, does not mean that the person is not thinking about you or does not love you. This story is my favorite because my father is in the military and he was gone very often and for long periods of time. This story expresses the way I felt when he was gone for so long. It is a cute story!!
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Charlotte Zolotow was born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro on June 26, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she took classes in art, writing and child psychology. She began her publishing career in New York, in the adult trade-book division of what is now known as HarperCollins, but eventually took a job in the show more children's division. As an editor, she presided over her own imprint, Charlotte Zolotow Books. She was named publisher emerita at HarperCollins in 1991. Her first picture book, The Park Book, was published in 1944. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 90 children's books including Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, My Grandson Lew, William's Doll, The Hating Book, and The Seashore Book. In 1998, the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) at the Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison's School of Education established the Charlotte Zolotow Award, which is an American literary award presented annually for outstanding picture book writing published in the United States in the preceding year. Zolotow died on November 19, 2013 at the age of 98. show less
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