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YA
In this fictionalized biography in verse, Hemphill channels the romantic version of Sylvia. The majority of the poems are putatively composed by the people who knew Plath; the remainder are identified as the author "Imagining Sylvia Plath." Hemphill is metrically adept and possesses Plath's eye for figurative language. Her verse, like Plath's, is completely compelling: every word, every line, worth reading.
Reviewer: Lissa Paul
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2007
259 pp.
| Farrar
| April, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-374-31429-3$18.00
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4-6
Illustrated by
Raymond Briggs.
The book begins with a seal birthing awake into the sea and ends with a lamb dying into the chaotic abyss. In between there is wonder. Every page reveals a glimpse of life at once familiar and utterly strange. Briggs's soft black-and-white charcoal sketches are, mainly, doodles in the margins; the best ones amplify something implicit in the poems.
Reviewer: Lissa Paul
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2007
310 pp.
| McElderry
| October, 2006
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TradeISBN 1-4169-1808-6$17.99
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4-6
Illustrated by
Scott Fischer.
In McCaughrean's authorized virtuoso new Peter Pan story, the densely patterned adventures unfold in a headlong rush. Barrie's old story is knit into the new, and backstories are revealed. What makes this book worth savoring is the rhythmically perfect prose, each sentence metrically balanced--deliciously edible. McCaughrean's is an exquisitely rendered, magical return to Neverland.
Reviewer: Lissa Paul
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2007
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