A review by opheliabedilia
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

4.0

My ten year old and I read this together (actually we listened to the first two thirds on audiobook and read the last third), and we both really enjoyed it. This is one of the children's books that assumes the children reading are intelligent, and can understand some more complicated literary devices. The voice is unique and the story is woven around pictures that the narrator, a gifted artist, has drawn. It's a lovely book, and my only criticism is that the ending ties up a little too neatly and story book happily. I'm giving it my rating of four stars, but my daughter says she'd give it ten stars, and that it's one of the best she's ever read.