![]() ![]() SUPER COW! was a smash hit both with critics (my teacher) and collectors (my parents). I grew up in Havertown, Pennsylvania, where I wrote and illustrated my first book in the third grade. Readers will also appreciate the irreverent humor of the fair’s adults: as a treatment for bullies, one recommends “a large quantity of chicken feathers and a few pots of honey.” The fair emphasizes adventure and theater, but its unconventional performers teach Imogen about kindness, too. Jamieson’s sturdy artwork (her figures are decidedly unglamorous, as if to offer regular kids reassurance) and sharp dialogue make it easy to care about her characters. As Imogen undergoes a period of self-enforced solitude, the extended family of the fair community offers unexpected support. In her first weeks, she falls victim to the wiles of a mean girl, hurts a girl who might have been a good friend, and throws her younger brother’s treasured stuffed animal into the lake. Imogen has been homeschooled all her life now, at 11, she’s headed to public school. Imogen Vega’s parents perform at a Renaissance fair in Florida, immersing the family in a world of jousting and archaic language (“Thou qualling toad-spotted clack-dish!”). □ I enjoyed this one and it was great for a clean middle school read. ![]() ![]() If I don’t care for graphic novels, why am I reading so many of them? I’m looking for some to add and I need to read what we already have. ![]()
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