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Stein, Mathilde

The Child Cruncher

32 pp. | Boyds/Lemniscaat | August, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-635-2 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Mies van Hout. A bored girl welcomes being kidnapped by a giant until she determines that he's not a "nice villain" but an "ordinary old child cruncher." Readers will be amused by the narrator's initial cluelessness and attempts to win over her captor. The illustrations, featuring dark-outlined figures in the foreground with gauzy, fuzzy-edged backgrounds, reassuringly reinforce the interplay between real and imaginary.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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