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Arsenault, Isabelle
2 Reviews
(2)
K-3
Mile End Kids series.
Wanting peace and quiet, Albert moves outside to the alley, imagination in fine working order. But his Montreal-neighborhood friends (from Colette's Lost Pet) invade, becoming increasingly boisterous and fracturing the peace of Albert's seaside daydream. The story unfolds in dialogue, sound effects, and pencil and pen drawings highlighted with jaunty orange and soft turquoise. A subtle portrait of the independent republic of childhood.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2019
(4)
K-3
Colette struggles with a move to a new urban home. But the contrived problem of a (made-up) lost pet parakeet sets her on an adventure with the neighborhood children as they band together searching. Smudgy pencil, watercolor, and ink drawings in varying-size panels--digitally colored with touches of parakeet blue and yellow--can be hard to read, but the story is ultimately heartwarming.
Reviewer: Jessica Bushore
2 reviews
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