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Fearing, Mark

The Great Thanksgiving Escape

32 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6306-3 $15.99

(3) K-3 During Thanksgiving at Grandma's, Gavin and cousin Rhonda make their way outside past cheek-pinching aunts, "the Great Wall of Butts," and a horde of zombies (video-game-playing teenagers) to the swing set...where Mother Nature throws them another curve. With their odd angles and unusual perspectives, the caricature illustrations (just this side of grotesque) capture the claustrophobia--and diverting possibilities--of a large family gathering.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2014