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YOUNGER FICTION
Hoban, Russell

Jim's Lion

80 pp. | Candlewick | November, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6517-3 $15.99
New ed. (2001)
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Alexis Deacon. Young Jim faces surgery and the possibility that he won't recover from an unnamed illness. His nurse suggests that his animal "finder," a lion, will help him return from this terrifying experience. Deacon's graphic-novel sequences successfully convey the strong emotions of Jim's inner life, and Hoban's allegory will resonate with the right reader. Others will struggle to make sense of the obscure, dreamlike story.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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