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Batchelder Award 2008
Brave
Story
by Miyuki Miyabe, trans. by Alexander O. Smith
(VIZ Media)
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Batchelder Honor Books
• Nicholas and the Gang
by René Goscinny ; illus. by Jean-Jacques Sempé (Phaidon
Press)
review to come
• The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity by Jutta Richter;
illus. by Rotraut Susanne Berner (Milkweed)
review
How the Horn Book reviewed
the winners
Jutta Richter
The Cat, Or, How I Lost Eternity; illus. by Rotraut Susanne
Berner
Milkweed
Reviewed spring 2008
In this strange tale, young Christine befriends a talking cat. The
cat gives her advice — sometimes sage, mostly mystifying —
as they contemplate eternity. Imaginative strong-lined black, white,
gray, and yellow illustrations that play with perspective and proportion
act as breaks between the episodic chapters, adding to the sophisticated
air of a story best suited to budding philosophers.
2008 ALA awards
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