Drizzle

My seven-year-old recommended this book to me, and as a testament to her maturing taste in literature (as well as her knowledge of her mother!), I LOVED it. In the genre of magical realism, which is a great genre for children's literature, especially, because it helps us remember how much of the wor......more

Okay. So usually this is the part of the review where I tell you what the book is about, except I’m not sure how to succinctly summarize Drizzle. It is, and I mean this in the best possible way, unlike any other book I’ve ever read. That was what attracted me to it. The truth is, I can’t even really......more

Polly Peabody's family lives on what can only be called a magical farm. Their house is a castle. Nobody can drown in their lake. The insects are surprisingly intelligent. And it rains every Monday at 1:00 p.m., without fail. Which does wonders for their rhubarb crops. But events conspire, and it loo......more

Meh. The story was not as magical as I expected. My fault, probably, as I mistakenly thought this was by the same author as Savvy Our heroine was a "flight" person when faced with almost the worst bully I've read. It was frustrating. Had a nice ending. The reader only differentiated a few of the voi......more

Polly Peabody knows that her family’s rhubarb farm is something special, even something magical! They grow Giant Rhubarb that is helping close the hole in the ozone and chocolate rhubarb that tastes like a sweet but is a vegetable. They have a lake that you can’t drown in no matter how long you hold......more