Flora & Ulysses : the illuminated adventures
Record details
- ISBN: 9780763687649 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780763660406 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 076366040X (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Newbery Medal book, 2014. |
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Subject: | Superheroes Fiction Girls Fiction Squirrels Fiction |
Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Action and adventure fiction. |
Available copies
- 9 of 9 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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Covington Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126019681042 | JFiction | Available | - |
Covington Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126020179374 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Covington Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126024777306 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Covington Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126024777314 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126019833445 | JFiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126022487825 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126024777322 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126024777330 | JFiction Paperback | Available | - |
Independence Branch | J DICAM K (Text) | 33126024777298 | JFiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2013 August
Gr 4â6âFlora, obsessed with superhero comics, immediately recognizes and gives her wholehearted support to a squirrel that, after a near-fatal brush with a vacuum cleaner, develops the ability to fly and type poetry. The 10-year-old hides her new friend from the certain disapproval of her self-absorbed, romance-writer mother, but it is on the woman's typewriter that Ulysses pours out his creations. Like DiCamillo's The Magician's Elephant (Candlewick, 2009), this touching piece of magical realism unfolds with increasing urgency over a mere few days and brings its somewhat caricatured, old-fashioned characters together into what becomes a supportive community for all. Campbell's rounded and gentle soft-penciled illustrations, at times in the form of panel art furthering the action, wonderfully match and add to the sweetness of this oddball story. Rife with marvelously rich vocabulary reminiscent of the early superhero era (e.g., "Holy unanticipated occurrences!") and amusing glimpses at the world from the point of view of Ulysses the supersquirrel, this book will appeal to a broad audience of sophisticated readers. There are plenty of action sequences, but the novel primarily dwells in the realm of sensitive, hopeful, and quietly philosophical literature.âRhona Campbell, Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC
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