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infowitch's reviews
2004 reviews
Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure by Charise Mericle Harper
4.0
The cutouts are brilliant! An adult can marvel at the engineering while a child looks through them and just marvels. The concept is perfect for the preliterate set and is a nice counterpoint to the more standard celebration of bedtime-- this is just gently humorous as it gets Leo ready for bed.
The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
5.0
I love Patrica McKillip. I suspect I would love her grocery list, really. So I may be writing from a point of bias, but this was marvelous. The mix of the mundane (a good cook, the trials of having your writing time constantly interrupted) balance perfectly the magic (doors that open into otherwheres, invisible beels that ring teh sun down). Her language is sumptuous, poetic, and delightfully expressive, laced throughout by a dry and subtle slant of humor and a strong sense of romance in the older sense of the word. Altogether a winner, plus that gorgeous cover!