The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

McClintock, Barbara

Adèle & Simon

40 pp. | Farrar/Foster | September, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-374-38044-9 $16.00

(2) K-3 Adèle and her brother, Simon, wend a circuitous path through early twentieth-century Paris. Simon is distracted by the many fascinating sights, such as a parade and puppets, and he loses his possessions (hat, books, sweater) one by one. Alert readers will find both children and Simon's things in meticulously detailed spreads. There are endnotes about the settings; an endpaper map (from the 1907 Baedeker) details the children's route.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2006