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Miller, Pat Zietlow

Sophie's Squash

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | August, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-307-97896-7 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-307-97897-4 $19.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. Sophie loves her friend Bernice. But Bernice is aging, and it's clear her life is nearing its end. Sophie is sad. What saves this from being saccharine is a single, brilliant narrative stroke: Bernice is a squash. It's a good joke, fully supported by Wilsdorf's disheveled, lumpy, personality-rich characters and rooted in kids' loyalties to their stuffed animals and other endowed objects.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013

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