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Author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Tale of Despereaux and the bestselling Because of Winn-Dixie, now a major Hollywood film! Julie Morstad is the illustrator of numerous books for young readers, including Kate DiCamillo's critically acclaimed The Puppets of Spelhorst; House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg; When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano; and Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.An exquisite little book… With lovely retro images and wisdom about friendship and adventure.
Children’s books of the year, The Sunday Times
This is a polished little gem… Atmospheric black and white drawings add to the short but absorbing drama.
- Sally Morris, Daily Mail
This story is like a perfectly polished pebble. While other writers for children build extravagant worlds and create exhausting quests, Kate DiCamillo has done the opposite with her latest book, The Puppets of Spelhorst, taking all the big themes — love, loss, longing — and distilling them down, down, down to the beautiful, bare bones of a fairytale… It is quite unlike everything else. DiCamillo is a puppetmaster extraordinaire and such an effortless storyteller that you can barely see the strings… A playful, poignant and peculiar story that might just “break your heart and also heal it”.
- Lucy Bannerman, The Times
An exquisite little book about five puppets in which a play they perform overlaps with their experience. With lovely retro images and wisdom about friendship and adventure.
The Sunday Times
A captivating and magical tale… The book has a fable-like quality, touching on ideas of belonging and destiny, it’s beautifully presented, too, with enchanting black and white illustrations throughout.
Juno