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The muppet under the stairs

by Katie Bircher
Aug 12, 2015 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
I love Randy Ribay's interview with Sonia Manzano (best known as Sesame Street's Maria) on her new memoir Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx, but something about the cover was nagging at me.

Then I realized it reminded me of the cover art for Jason Vanhee's creepy-cool Engines of the Broken World, which I reviewed in the November/December 2013 Magazine:

manzano_becoming maria  vanhee_engines of the broken world
Eep! Let's just pretend that's a muppet hiding under the stairs. (Although, as Siân points out, that may not be a comforting thought.)

Katie Bircher

Formerly an editor and staff reviewer for The Horn Book’s publications, Katie Bircher is currently associate agent at Sara Crowe Literary. Katie holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons University and has over seven years of experience as an indie bookseller specializing in children’s and YA literature.

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