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Stead, Philip C.

Ideas Are All Around

48 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-62672-181-4 $18.99

(2) K-3 An author attempts to walk off writer's block. The suggestion is that the nameless, faceless writer-narrator, who walks with his dog, Wednesday, is Stead himself, and that this is the "story" Stead writes. Just as improvisational-seeming as the text are the mixed-media illustrations accented with Polaroids. This book will reward readers receptive to the notion that the world speaks to those who listen.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2016