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32 pp.
| Thames |
October, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-500-65109-4$17.95
(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.