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40 pp.
| Eerdmans
| March, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5463-6$16.00
(4)
K-3
Samira is horrified to learn that everyone has a skeleton inside themselves. The concept is clever, and Kuhn's pencil and digital illustrations strike a balance between creepy and funny, rendering characters with wide eyes, over-emphasized teeth, and huge heads against muted backgrounds. However, the prose is sometimes awkward and the slightly morbid climax may leave readers feeling unsettled.