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Bedard, Michael
4 Reviews
(2)
YA
"O" (Ophelia) spends the summer in small-town Ontario, helping her aunt Emily at The Green Man, a struggling second-hand bookshop. Since childhood, Emily has been troubled by dreams of a menacing magic show; now, O glimpses great poets of the past roaming the shop. This imaginative, gracefully written explication of Rimbaud's belief that one must be mad to be a poet makes an entertaining tale.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2012
(2)
YA
Bedard conveys the social circumstances and political upheavals of Blake's lifetime (1757–1827) while initiating readers into the style and taste of the period and giving meaningful access to the language and imagery of Blake's work. Bedard's sedate, even prose helps tether and validate Blake's grand schema of the world and heaven. This is a demanding work that stands to deepen and enhance any teenager's interest in its subject. Reading list. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2007
(1)
YA
When Charles, hiding out in a pew in St. Bart's church, sees a stained-glass window break and fall on a homeless girl sleeping below, his concern for the girl starts him on an odyssey that takes the two of them all over his home town and into the shattered pieces of his memories. At first the going is pretty slow, but Bedard has achieved a breathtaking marriage of structure, image, and theme.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2002
(4)
K-3
Bedard tells of an alligator who smuggles a duck out of the duck factory, planning to eat him; surprisingly he finds himself befriending his intended snack. The illustrations, starring ducks with an appealingly vulnerable charm, are more successful than the story, which strives for a deadpan wackiness, but which ends up seeming oddly detached.
Reviewer: Jackie C. Horne
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