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Jane, the Fox, and Me was such a pleasant surprise! I'd passed the book over a couple of times in my library then rediscovered it online when searching for Canadian books from independent publishers. Picking it up today, I discovered the illustrations I once saw as "murky and grey" were actually really lovely pencily sketches with erased out sections. Color is used intentionally, though I won't spoil it with the details. The story follows Helene, a young student in Montreal who is bullied by the
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The illustrations are marvelous, but I can't help wondering if something is lost in translation from the French. Maybe it's merely a cultural difference in storytelling and metaphor, which is fine, but I wanted there to be more of a climax, more of a tight, poetic moment where Helene's inner world is translated more fully to the outer. On the whole, though, this was a lovely story with precisely felt (and darkly humorous) scenes of adolescent embarrassment (the drawings of Helene as a sausage st
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I adored the illustrations and the style of this book! I loved how it celebrated reading as an escape and connections with nature being important.
I think the themes about the importance of friendship, self-image, bullying and cliques are very relevant for kids, especially girls like in this book.
It was presented in a lovely honest way.
5 for the illustrations and 4 for the story.
I think the themes about the importance of friendship, self-image, bullying and cliques are very relevant for kids, especially girls like in this book.
It was presented in a lovely honest way.
5 for the illustrations and 4 for the story.
I fell in love with the book on page one (or nine, to be more accurate, where the story begins) -- "There was no possibility of hiding anywhere today." This is easily one of the best books I have ever read. A smart, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful picture book for older readers, especially any children who have been bullied or ostracized or who have a negative self image. This book cuts in its honesty, in its depiction of harshness and loneliness and hurt, but it's also so beautiful and so breatht
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Lovely illustrations, daily life spiced up with Jane Eyre, outcast kids, summer camp hell--it's got it all.
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I'm confused about a bit of it, but that's not unusual in translation. I loved the color panels with trees.
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