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The Call of the Swamp

32 pp. | Eerdmans | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8028-5486-5 $16.00
(3) K-3 Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Marco Somà. In this Italian import, a human couple adopts Boris, the baby with gills like a fish they find by a swamp. Boris is content with them until the day the wind brings an evocative salty smell. Boris tries swamp life but ultimately wonders, "Maybe our family is simply the ones we love?" It's a sweetly peculiar adoption story made all the more so by the nonchalantly surreal illustrations.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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