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DATE: Monday, May 20, 1996                   TAG: 9605210033
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1    EDITION: METRO 

NON-LOOKSIST READING LIST FOR CHILDREN

LENGTH: Short :   34 lines
ILLUSTRATION: GRAPHIC: (chart) NON-LOOKSIST READING LIST FOR CHILDREN    
          ``Sleeping Ugly,'' by Jane Yolen (Coward-McCann)
             ``Monster Mama,'' by Liz Rosenberg (Trumpet Club)
             ``The Biggest Nose,'' by Kathy Caple (Houghton Mifflin)
             ``Lily's Story,'' by Erin Flanagan (Avon)
             ``Eggbert, The Slightly Cracked Egg,'' by Tom Ross (G.P. Putnam's
          Sons)
             ``Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People,'' by 
          Frederick Drimmer (Bantam Skylark)
             ``Arthur's Nose'' and ``Arthur's Eyes,'' by Marc Brown (Little, 
          Brown)
          FOR OLDER READERS    ``Road Song,'' by Natalie Kusz (Farrar Straus 
          Giroux)
             ``Dreamsnake,'' by Vonda McIntyre (Gollancz)
             ``So Much To Tell You,'' by John Marsden (Little, Brown)
          BACKGROUND READING    ``Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in 
          Everyday Life,'' by Elaine Hatfield (Suny Press)
             ``Beauty is the Beast: The Trials of Appearance-Impaired Children
          in America,'' by Ann Hill-Beuf (University of Pennsylvania Press)
             ``Physical Appearance and Gender: Sociobiological & Sociocultural
          Perspectives,'' by Linda A. Jackson (Suny Press)
          Associated Press