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If: A Father's Advice to His Son, A Poem
From: Black Issues Book Review
Date: 20070301
Author:Reynolds, Clarence V
If: A Father's Advice to His Son, A Poem By Rudyard Kipling Photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr. Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, March 2007 $14.99, ISBN 0-689-87799-5
What makes a boy into a man? The question is posed inside this recent publication of If: A Fathers Advice to His Son, The revered and inspirational poem //first appeared in 1902. Photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. says the poem British author and poet Rudyard Kipling has stayed with him ever since being introduced to it in the sixth grade.
The poem's description of virtues that build character such as ...
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