I picked up Lois Lowry’s The Willoughbys last week, during a stir-of-the-moment bookshop stop.
“Nefariously Written & Ignominiously Illustrated by the Author,” The Willoughbys is a quirky little novel that pokes fun at the old-fashioned orphan/nanny/benevolent tycoon plot.
Tim, Barnaby A and B (twins, an inconvenience during the crucial name providing moment), and Jane, are clever and [...]
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