A review by kategci
Inkling by Kenneth Oppel

4.0

An excellent choice (chosen by the kids), for the kids book club that I help moderate. The kids who finished it, loved it. I liked it, but was worried that some of the themes were above them. What was so interesting is that we talked about the book with 8 year olds and the were focused on Inkling and his peril and they really did not have much to say about Ethan and his family. I think if we discussed it with 12 year olds, we would have had a very different conversation. It was so interesting to me how the children did not notice the more mature (middle school) themes and read it on a completely different level. A tribute to the author, Kenneth Oppel for writing this way. The illustrations were great as well. I highly recommend this book (as did the New York Public Library - it was one of the 100 best Children's books for 2018 chosen by a group of Chidren's Librarians each year).