(2) 4-6 Translated by Guy Puzey. Illustrated by Katie Harnett. Boisterous ten-year-old Astrid is the sole child inhabitant of a tiny Norwegian village. When her best friend, elderly curmudgeon Gunnvald, breaks his leg, his hitherto-unknown (to Astrid) grown daughter shows up. Humor and pathos result--lots of both--all grounded by the specificity of the setting and the clarity and depth of the characterizations. Although there are homages to Heidi and Pippi Longstocking, Parr has crafted a fresh tale all her own.

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

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Katie Harnett. After World War II, the world's magic "has come and gone," and the remaining dragons must fit into Vienna society under government regulation. Fire-breathing dragon Grisha meets a girl, Maggie, whose creative nature lets her see the world's remaining magic, and together they devise a plan to free the dragons. Each chapter of this enchanting historical fantasy begins with a full-page scene-setting illustration.

Reviewer: Jessica Bushore

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Katie Harnett. Everyone is afraid of dragon Franklin until he makes friends with a girl who loves books as much as he does, and together they devise the titular bookshop. It's a pleasing bibliophile story, but the wandering present-tense text makes inconsistent efforts at rhyming and tries a touch too hard to be whimsical; Harnett's color-saturated illustrations are stylized in a way that sometimes looks amateurish.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Katie Harnett. Gathering diary entries from her childhood, foster kid Ira chronicles how "life got exciting" for herself and her younger brother, Zac, when they moved into London children's home Skilly House in 1987. A quiet, emotion-driven episodic novel about family and finding a home, with a narrator so sincere that readers will stay invested until the very end.

Reviewer: Rebecca Fox