Grabbing our attention right off the bat, Eleanor tells us on page one: “I had a bad August. This short novel for children tells the story of a young girl, named Eleanor, whose beloved babysitter, Bibi, is moving away. Julie addressed specifically what it was like to see Matt’s illustrations for the book, and Matt gives us a detailed description of the stages in the life of his illustrations for this title.Īnd since Julie didn’t talk about the writing of the book, her debut title, let me tell you how much I enjoyed it. And that’s because I asked them if they wanted to stop by and talk about the book, and hoo boy, they ran with it. It’s been a bit since I’ve done a post on an illustrated novel, but to be doing the first one in a while on Julie Sternberg’s Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie (Amulet, March 2011), illustrated by Matthew Cordell, is good. That very big book had very long words that I didn’t understand. I got a book, the first book I saw, and climbed with it into my bed. “‘I could read you a bedtime story,’ she said.
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