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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Repost)

Posted By: Balisik
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Repost)

Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell "Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures"
Candlewick | English | September 24, 2013 | ISBN: 076366040X | 240 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 47,9 mb

In Flora, DiCamillo has created a wonderful main character an extremely intelligent and sensitive 10-year-old girl living in a world in which the adults around her don't seem to have much use for her, so she reasonably views their world with a jaundiced eye. She retreats into "cynicism" and comics until the world rather rudely and amusingly puts her into contact with a most amazing squirrel and some pretty screwball characters who will by turns exasperate, fascinate and enlighten her into some of the ways other people chose, or fall into, to cope with their sometimes hostile and uncaring worlds.

Despite how angsty that last paragraph is, the book is for the most part a hoot it is just a hoot with a point or two to make. My daughter and I both came to like Flora's dad, understand her mom, adore Ulysses, the superhero squirrel, and appreciate William Spiver.