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My Feet Are Laughing by Lissette Norman; pictures by Frank Morrison is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P><i>My name is Sadie</i><p><i>and I live in </i><i>Harlem</i><i></i><p><i>with my mother</i><p><i>and my little sister, </i><i>Julie</i><i>.</i><p><i></i><p>Sadie likes living in her grandmother's brownstone, where she has her own bedroom and a backyard to play in. She's full of thoughts and has lots to say about her family and friends, her home, her hair, and her laughing feet that can't keep still. And when she grows up she plans on being a poet.<P>This collection of sixteen exuberant poems in the voice of a young Dominican American girl and energetic, bright paintings celebrates Sadie's family and the city around her.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>An eight-year-old girl narrates 16 poems that are infectious in their toe-tapping, life-loving spirit. Sadie, an aspiring writer, lives with her mother and younger sister in Harlem. In the selection, The Coolest Job in the World, she calls herself a poetry girl who will paint pictures with words. Norman, whose parents, like her heroine's, hail from the Dominican Republic, has done just that with her first children's book. I'm a hip-hop song that makes you wiggle./ I'm a late-night sneaky giggle, Sadie imagines in the selection D

Who reads My Feet Are Laughing?

Author

Lissette Norman; pictures by Frank Morrison

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374350963

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14