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About the Illustrator
    Blanche Sims was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her grandfather was a portrait painter and art professor. He has paintings in the Smithsonian. She would send him drawings and he would reward her with chocolates and other gifts. In elementary school her teachers would ask her to draw historical events to display in class.
    Blanche has worked as an illustrator for young people’s art at Famous Artists School and later at Xerox in the art department. Then she became a children’s book illustrator. Among the many books she has illustrated is the Polk Street series.
    Blanche lives in Sandy Hook, CT. She has four children and eight grandchildren.

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    copyright © 1990 by Patricia Reilly Giff
    illustrations copyright © 1990 Blanche Sims
    cover design by Georgia Morrissey
    978-1-4532-2046-7
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