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389 pp.
| Little
| February, 2007
|
TradeISBN 978-0-316-01091-7$16.99
(2)
4-6
Illustrated by
Bret Bertholf.
Bajoria takes Mog and Nick (The Printer's Devil) to Kniveacres Hall, a fabulous old pile in the country, full of secret passages and persons of evil intent. With the help of a book that details Kniveacres's secrets and the bits and pieces offered by village gossips, Nick and Mog puzzle through. Here's gothic melodrama at its juicy best.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2007
(2)
4-6
Illustrated by
Bret Bertholf.
Miss Hagmeyer, a fanatic believer in the virtue of sewing, assigns her fourth-grade students the task of making cloth animiles, the medieval variant of animals. Leon, already branded as lacking fine motor skills by previous teachers, may never make it to fifth grade. An outrageous plot involves Leon's animile, a Miss Hagmeyer look-alike, coming alive and causing havoc in school. Kurzweil's over-the-top approach is dead-on funny.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2004
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