Monday, September 30, 2013

Book of Interest: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures


This seems like it will be an interesting quirky little story. How can it not be with a girl and squirrel becoming superheroes. I think the cover is cute.

Book: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures written by Kate DiCamillo with illustrations by K.G. Campbell

Description:

Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry — and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart.

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