Book Reviews
by Eric A. KimmelWhen I was a child in Brooklyn there were several people in our neighborhood with numbers — small faint numbers neatly tattooed on the undersides of their wrists. We were not supposed to stare, but I can remember that even at an early age I could not...
by Lloyd Alexander The White Queen proudly told Alice she had learned to believe six impossible things before breakfast. We do much better. Science appears on the verge of discoveries that may let us live forever, at the same time perfecting ways to get rid of us altogether. We can...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg162 pp. Atheneum 1967 $3.95If there were such a thing as a recipe for a successful children’s book — for which we can be grateful there is not — this one would doubtless violate all the rules. The...
The Egypt Gameby Zilpha Keatley Snyder; illus. by Alton Raible215 pp. Atheneum 1967 $3.95An abandoned, closed-in yard behind an antique shop was the perfect place to play the Egypt Game. The children could put up their altars to Set, the Evil One, and to Nefertiti or Isis (as the bust...
Zeelyby Virginia Hamilton; illus. by Symeon Shimin122 pp. Macmillan 1967 $3.95 gIn a unique, plotless story, the unusual is first suggested when Elizabeth decides to call her little brother Toeboy and herself Geeder for the summer. The old house on Uncle Ross' farm and the outdoors of catalpa forest,...
by Lloyd AlexanderThe muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes. She does not carry a soothing lyre for inspiration, but is more likely to shake you roughly awake at four in the morning...
by Edward EagerIt is customary, in writing of E. Nesbit, to begin by telling how one first read her stories in The Strand Magazine, either devouring the installments one by one as they appeared, or perhaps even better, coming upon them unexpectedly in old bound volumes in some grandmotherly attic.This...
Bid My Soul Farewell by Beth Revis Middle School, High School Razorbill/Penguin 316 pp. g 9/19 978-1-5951-4719-6 $18.99 Newly minted necromancer Nedra (Give the Dark My Love, rev. 9/18) has only one goal — to fully restore life to her twin sister, whom she had previously attempted to raise from...
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