Into the Pumpkin by Linda Franklin

Into the Pumpkin
by Linda Franklin

Product Details

• ISBN-13: 9780764341830
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
• Publication date: 7/28/2012
• Pages: 48
• Sales rank: 766,183
• Age range: 4 - 7 Years
• Product dimensions: 8.70 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Linda Franklin is the author and illustrator for this Halloween story that is sure to be one the family will take out and read-aloud for their children every Halloween night. The illustrations may be a little too scary for younger children but the poem is not. Beautifully illustrated in Fall colors and written in poem form, the story tells of the preparations the witches, ghosts, crows and other scary creatures are doing to prepare for their Halloween party.

 Full disclosure: Review copy received from NetGalley Aug2012

 Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult

My rating: 4 of 5 stars





If you are hoping to read a new Jodi Picoult's highly intense, ripped from the headlines, dramatic YA book..... you are probably not going to like this one.

This novel is a collaboration between Jodi Picoult and her daughter, Samantha Van Leer who presented her mother with a story idea. Her mother decided to encourage her daughter's writing ideas with this  book being the result. That being said... here is my review:

Ever wonder what happens to the characters in a story once the reader closes the book? This witty and creative spin on happily ever after is told from three viewpoints: The fairy tale story "Between the Lines" as it was written, Prince Oliver's character who desperately wants to break free from his life in the book, and Delilah, the teenager who's difficult life has made her obsessed with the story and romantic Prince Oliver. 

I found the story to be different yet clever although the ending was not what I was expecting. It was fun to read! I could imagine a young girl's imagination coming through the pages as we find out what happens to the characters once the fairy tale book concludes with the words "The End". Although I enjoyed the story I would, as Jodi Picoult suggests in her acknowledgments, recommend the book to readers "too young to address the issues discussed in her adult novels."



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