Book: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo with illustrations by K. G. Campbell
Source: Library
Rating: 4 1/2 stars
Review:
This was very cute and quirky but also a little sad. Flora & Ulysses is a unique blend of comics and story. In this story, ten years old Flora Buckman who is a self proclaimed cynic is dealing with the after effects of her parents divorce.
She loves to read her favorite comic book The Illuminated adventures of the Amazing Incandesto! but unfortunately it's not the reading material her mother a romance writer deems appropriate.
And one day while Flora was reading her comic she looked out the window and looked into her neighbor's yard and saw Mrs. Tickham being pulled by a high powered vacuum cleaner and she was heading in the direction of a squirrel. Flora tried to warn her neighbor but due to the loud noise of the vacumm her warnings couldn't be heard. And in a short amount of time the poor little squirrel was vacuumed.
That should have been the end to the squirrel's story but after Flora revived him he did something truly extraordinary he lifted the heavy vacuum cleaner. After naming the squirrel Ulysses and taking him home, Flora had found a new friend who may become a hero.
Ulysses wasn't the only new friend for her, she met her neighbor Mrs. Tickham's nephew William Spiver a unique little boy and her father's neighbor Dr. Meescham, a kind and sweet little lady.
I thought this was funny yet at times bittersweet because Flora is just too young to be a cynic and as much as she tries to tell herself that she doesn't care about anything deep down she really does. Flora and William Spiver are interesting little kids because they have old souls despite being children.
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