5/11/2023 0 Comments The penderwicks book 2It’s no good to say a book is “the next Penderwicks” or “Penderwicks meets ”. Now librarians must wade through the lot of them in the desperate hope that maybe one or two will be worth recommending. Imitators weren’t immediate, but as time has gone by they’ve cropped up like so many unwanted dandelions. Birdsall followed in her predecessors’ footsteps and did something unforgiveable: she made it look easy. Books that are touching a meaningful but never saccharine. Well, the creation of The Penderwicks was a good deed to children across the world in need of great fiction that’s homey and familiar without being cloying. A crime shared, I might add, by books written by authors like Dr. When Jeanne Birdsall’s first middle grade novel The Penderwicks was published in 2005 it committed a crime.
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