(2) 4-6 Translated by Sam Gordon. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. This is a poignant story of war, loss, and resilience--and a child's need to know even painful truths. With her father fighting in WWI, five-year-old Rosalie sits at the back of her French-village school, hoping to learn to read her father's letters. When she breaks through to literacy, she learns a devastating if cathartic truth. De Fombelle's (Vango) spare text allows narrator Rosalie's fierceness to shine through. Arsenault's emotive art focuses on significant details.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2019

(2) YA Translated by Sam Gordon. A boy stumbles upon a forest house filled with suitcases. What he learns about their owner brings together the politics of a fairy-tale kingdom, the love between a fairy and a banished prince, and the fate of an adopted son of Parisian marshmallow makers. Stuffed with Old-World, otherworldly strangeness, this fantastical novel movingly explores memory and the power of story to render love immortal.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018