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Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes
3.0

2.5 stars, rounding up to 3. I want to like this better than I do. I enjoy the fact that this is a book of poems about friendship between girls. The relationship between them is warm and supportive, and even though they fight occasionally they always come back to each other. That this friendship is so successfully sketched out in just over a dozen short poems is genuinely impressive. That said, I didn't think the poems themselves were that great. They're likeable enough, and maybe it's just that I tend to find rhyming poems a hard sell at the best of times, but there were a few places where it all just felt a bit clunky to me. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful, though.