Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
2017
This is a proper book.
It has a thick spine. It is 243
pages long. The text is blocked . It uses
a serif font and has difficult ‘a’s and ‘g’s.
However,
it does make a few concessions to the fairly new reader: it has short chapters, it uses double spacing and includes some different
fonts for different types of text. The
chapters are short.
Fidge is thrown into a bizarre fantasy world with her awful
cousin Graham shortly after her sister Minnie has been run over. Thus Lissa Evans cleverly gets the adults out of
the way. Fidge grows in the other world:
she takes responsibility for Minnie’s
accident.
We have a recognisable story arc: Fidge crosses the threshold,
refuses the call and faces trials and enemies.
The novel may remind us of other stories. Fidge and Graham are
perhaps like Mary and Colin in Secret Garden. It may also remind us of the Alice book; toys come to life and there is some nonsense
verse.
Pace is maintained
through the short chapters, a quick exchange of dialogue, cliff hangers at the
end of many chapters and plenty of action.
It is certainly
quirky.
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