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A review by aholeistodig
Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Sydney Smith, Esta Spalding
5.0
Hands down, my favorite book of 2016.
Just reread Look Out, and found myself so excited to get back to the island with Kim, Kimo, Peppa, and Toby.
The whole book is just so delightful, and weird, and unpredictable, a little funny and a little scary, and just a little sad, too. ("Grownups ruin everything" sure reads, to me as an adult, at least, with an extra sting in 2018 America.)
A must-read for Dahl and Pinkwater devotees. Like those authors' stories, the misadventures of the F-Ts won't be literally relatable to most kids reading, but their experiences will absolutely ring familiar to any child who's felt the joy, disappointment, and confusion of navigating the world. So, any child.
After all, when it comes down to it, we're all the Awfuls, aren't we?
Just reread Look Out, and found myself so excited to get back to the island with Kim, Kimo, Peppa, and Toby.
The whole book is just so delightful, and weird, and unpredictable, a little funny and a little scary, and just a little sad, too. ("Grownups ruin everything" sure reads, to me as an adult, at least, with an extra sting in 2018 America.)
A must-read for Dahl and Pinkwater devotees. Like those authors' stories, the misadventures of the F-Ts won't be literally relatable to most kids reading, but their experiences will absolutely ring familiar to any child who's felt the joy, disappointment, and confusion of navigating the world. So, any child.
After all, when it comes down to it, we're all the Awfuls, aren't we?