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Yarlett, Emma

Orion and the Dark

32 pp. | Candlewick/Templar | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-7595-0 $16.99
(4) K-3 Young narrator Orion fears darkness. After the Dark (resembling a giant blue jelly bean with limbs) visits him, they strike up a life-altering friendship: "nobody (not even me) is scared of their best friend." The story works, but the changing fonts and font sizes, vignettes with tiny type, and underlined and crossed-out words are, while visually inventive, cumulatively nerve fraying.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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