PICTURE BOOKS
Campbell, Jen

Franklin's Flying Bookshop

(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.

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