As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Fabian Negrin.
Stylized, folk-primitive paintings richly illustrate this story of a talismanic bone pendant carved into moon shape by an Argentine gaucho. Fashioned with stone and silver into a necklace, it passes from a grandmother to many other women, and "perhaps to you," the reader, who now knows of its origin. The images in the poetic text, though occasionally labored, are often evocative.