
Published by Orion / Hodder & Stoughton
NYP February 2023
Nothing better to do, I suppose. Rhodd found that most frogs she had met tended to be of a lugubrious, melancholy disposition.
I think I owe everyone a bit of an apology. I haven’t reviewed any books for some time and usually I do a run down of books that you should have / should buy for Christmas – a bit of a failure on that front. I caught some sort of bug…but that’s all history and this, this is a brand new (almost) year….
This is Penny Chrimes’ new book – as always her books are a little different. This about a young girl from the marshlands and her friend. She’s a bit of an outsider she’s different… and lives with her ‘Mum’ on the outskirts of the village. It used to be beautiful there…but the marsh has engulphed the river. No-one travels from there any more. No-one leaves by boat…
Penny’s books often have curious and wonderful elements and so it is with this – a wonderful ending, though not one you will expect…
A book of wildness and nature…not to be missed.
It is out on the 16th of February – put your orders in now to avoid disappointment!
Don’t miss her other titles…The Dragon and her Boy and Tiger Heart…this though, could be, her best yet.