The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Kobald, Irena

My Two Blankets

32 pp. | Houghton | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-43228-4 $16.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Freya Blackwood. In this Australian import, Cartwheel and her auntie leave their war-torn home and immigrate to the safety of a new country. Evocative, motif- and metaphor-filled watercolor and oil illustrations visualize Cartwheel's difficult adjustment to a new language and landscape ("Even the wind felt strange"). An emerging (though oddly one-sided) friendship, which is compared to a comforting blanket, eases her transition.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty