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This Strange, Fantastical World: A Review of Lawrence Hill’s “Beatrice and Croc Harry”

Beatrice and Croc HarryLawrence HillHarper Collins, 2022 Review by Edie Reaney Chunn Palaver Bumfuzzled Honey bucket What do these words have in common? Each of them is in The Saint Lawrence Dictionary of Only the Best Words, Real and...

July 14, 2022 at 12:43 pm Reviews Editor read more

The Poetic Beauty and Effortless Ease of Sara Pennypacker’s “Pax”

Review by Lesley Finn Pax by Sara Pennypacker Harper Collins, 2016 In the opening pages of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, twelve-year-old Peter plays fetch with his pet in the woods. The idyll is all artifice: this is a scene...

August 24, 2016 at 11:40 am Anita Bedell read more

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This Strange, Fantastical World: A Review of Lawrence Hill’s “Beatrice and Croc Harry”

The Poetic Beauty and Effortless Ease of Sara Pennypacker’s “Pax”