Amy Ignatow has knocked my socks off again with The Popularity Papers: The Long Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang! I really don't know how she does it. Not only does she capture, wonderfully, the personalities of her two main characters through their writing and drawings, but she also manages to create a plot that is so genuine and real and filled with humor and
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on 3/11/2011
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on 2/21/2011
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With Reckless Cornelia Funke returns to the dark world of fairy tales, however this time the portal to another world is a mirror instead of the magical voice of a reader. Although their last name is Reckless, brothers Jacob and Will seem to be direct descendants of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and the fairy tales that they recorded. In Reckless, the first book in what is to be a series, Funke proves
2 Comments on Reckless, written and illustrated by Cornelia Funke, translated by Oliver Latsch, 394 pp, RL: MIDDLE GRADE, last added: 2/21/2011
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I enjoyed this title, but understand what you mean you talk about the storyline compared to Inkheart. There was a lot of introduction to the characters and setting, but the rest of the story was a bit under-developed and a bit confusing at times. It was like we jumped into the plot somewhere in the middle. <br /><br />I really like the idea and the characters, though. I'm looking forward to
Thanks so much! I think that because I was reading this book for the first time as a judge in a contest, I was a lot harder on it than I normally would have been in a review. I always love to delve into the dark worlds that Funke creates and I look forward to finding out more about the characters - Fox especially - in the next book. I hope she throws in some more details about the artifacts from