Review of the Day: Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes, ill. Karlene Harvey

Maggie Lou, Firefox
By Arnolda Dufour Bowes
Groundwood Books
$14.99
ISBN: 9781773068817
Ages 9-12
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Boy, we sure love our tropes in children’s books. Once we’ve located a particular kind of book for kids that does a particular kind of thing, every book that comes after can, nay MUST, be compared to it. Take Ramona G. Quimby, for example. When Beverly Cleary wrote her best-known heroine, little did she know that she had just set the bar for “spunky” female heroines. I use the word “sp...