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Thacher Hurd, illus. by Elisa Kleven, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-38254-4 Kleven's (A Carousel Tale) intricately worked paintings, delicate as Easter eggs, depict a girl in ...