![]() ![]() ![]() She was found by Brother Edik, curled up asleep, wracked with fever, beside the monastery’s resident demon goat, Answelica. There was once a girl and she was covered in blood. ![]() Pairing with the utterly lovely Sophie Blackall, the two present us with a story that has all the trappings of a fable, and all the reality of a thoroughly thrilling tale. Kate DiCamillo isn’t afraid of lobbing the occasional angel at you, whether it has blue wings or smells like a sewer, but in her latest book The Beatryce Prophecy there’s something else on her mind. In a time when there seems to be a thick wedge between books for kids that are entirely secular and those that are chock full o’ religious fervor, these types of stories that walk a line between the two are rarities. Mind you, each of these books grapple with religion in some fashion, going so far as to throw in the occasional angel for spice. Think too of graphic novels like Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis. Think of recent Newbery Honors The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz and The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. ![]() The author that digs deep into the muck of the past sometimes finds literary medals buried there. As our world sinks more and more comfortably into a general morass of technology, it should be little wonder that recent children’s books have grown increasingly comfortable shrugging off our modern day beeps and boops in favor of (of all things) the Middle Ages. ![]()
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