(2) K-3 Mile End Kids series. Wanting peace and quiet, Albert moves outside to the alley, imagination in fine working order. But his Montreal-neighborhood friends (from Colette's Lost Pet) invade, becoming increasingly boisterous and fracturing the peace of Albert's seaside daydream. The story unfolds in dialogue, sound effects, and pencil and pen drawings highlighted with jaunty orange and soft turquoise. A subtle portrait of the independent republic of childhood.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2019

(1) 4-6 Translated by Susan Ouriou. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. The collaborators behind Jane, the Fox & Me have crafted another poignant picture book–size graphic novel. Louis and his little brother live with their always-worried mom, occasionally visiting their untreated-alcoholic dad. Louis's insightful observations about realistic familial struggles are heart-rending; dramatic pencil and ink illustrations employ powerfully moving wordless panels and splashes of yellow and greenish-blue to depict his somber world.

Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2017

(4) 4-6 Based on Demos's nonfiction adult book, The Unredeemed Captive, this fictionalized version focuses on real-life Massachusetts Puritan seven-year-old Eunice. Kidnapped in a 1704 French and Indian raid and taken to Canada, she's renamed Gannenstenhawi, adjusts to her new life, and eventually marries a Mohawk man. Despite being occasionally awkward in the transition to fiction, the text is well researched and fast paced. Bib.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey