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Orloff, Karen Kaufman

I Wanna Go Home

32 pp. | Putnam | September, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-25407-9 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by David Catrow. The third epistolary I Wanna book takes as its subject Alex's week at his grandparents' retirement community. To Alex's surprise, his apprehension turns into appreciation. Orloff shoots for easy old-people targets (dentures, unhipness) but is overall gentle, and if Catrow depicts the grandparents as semigrotesque, he extends the same courtesy to the remaining cast.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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