Books by Elise Broach
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review 1: I loved this book! It has everything: great voice and characterization, amazing description and setting, a variety of relationships between the characters and beetles communicating with humans. As a fan of the Littles and the Borrowers growing up, I loved reading about Marvin and...
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review 1: Since I've loved Broach's other works, I thought I'd been a fan of this one too. But I wasn't. It's fine, it just wasn't great. With the story centered on the middle of three brothers, there's a lot of gender assumptions being made. Even though Henry accepts Delilah on their adve...
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review 1: We were listening to this one on CD on a road trip and finally gave up when it turned out everyone was either (1) mocking it, or (2) falling asleep. Two main problems: the book needed severe editing down, and the narrator had a way of reading certain chapters as if they were epic...
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review 1: This is Lee Elementary's One Read this year and my daughter loved it so much, she urged me to read it. I loved it too. It was exciting and wise and kind."A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was i...
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review 1: The Miniature World of Marvin & James by Elise Broach, illustrated by Kelly Murphy – early chapter book – 2nd grade and up – Just love Elise Broach’s Masterpiece – I was curious to see how this book would work as an introduction to Masterpiece. I love how there isn’t explanation....