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YOUNGER FICTION
Timberlake, Amy

Skunk and Badger

136 pp. | Algonquin | September, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-64375-005-7 $18.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-64375-121-4 $15.95
(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Jon Klassen. Badger is perfectly content to live alone in a brownstone owned by Aunt Lula, which he's arranged to suit his rather particular preferences, when a surprise roommate turns up. (It would have been less of a surprise had he not been too busy to read Aunt Lula's letters.) Skunk needs a home--"Not everyone wants a skunk"--but the impetuous and sometimes literally effusive Skunk's interference with scientist Badger's Important Rock Work just won't do. The personality pairing familiar to readers of Frog and Toad and the like should help ease the transition to this more challenging text, with its advanced vocabulary ("He'd shelved [the rocks and minerals] alphabetically with the most delicate specimens wrapped in tissue paper"), long paragraphs, and only occasionally interspersed illustrations. Those illustrations, some in black and white and some in warm color, echo the text's old-fashioned feel. This new series, with its humor and understated (well, sometimes) emotions, deserves a far warmer welcome than the one Skunk initially receives.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2021

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