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Voake, Charlotte

Melissa's Octopus and Other Unsuitable Pets

32 pp. | Candlewick | May, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-7481-6 $16.99
(3) PS An omniscient narrator introduces various children with variously "unsuitable" pets, the mildest being Simon's worm ("not a bad pet, but Simon never knows which end to talk to"). Readers will delight in the narrator's insouciance alongside comical illustrations of increasingly out-of-hand pets. The book is brazenly old-fashioned, recalling a time when children's literature routinely featured characters threatened with being eaten.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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