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What makes THE SPOON (Crocodile Books, 40 pp., $14.95, ages 5 to 7), a newly translated picture book by the Argentine writer ...

In a collection of mini essays, poems and painted vignettes, the artist and writer reckons with remorse and joy.

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has ...