Books by Benji Davies and Complete Book Reviews

Benji Davies. Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9967-6
Noi’s father is a fisherman, and when he leaves early every morning, Noi knows “he wouldn’t be home again till dark.” But Noi’s solitary life (with the exception of the family’s six cats) ends when he discovers a baby whale washed up on the beach....
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Benji Davies. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9005-2
When faced with death, children are often told, for better or worse, that the person is in a better place now. In the case of a boy named Syd, he knows for a fact that his Grandad is somewhere pretty spectacular. In this gentle, magic-tinged...
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Benji Davies. Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-250-11186-9
Noi helped care for a young beached whale in Davies’s The Storm Whale, and although the two parted ways at the end of that book, the whale gets a chance to return the favor in a sequel with its own high stakes. When Noi’s father doesn’t return after
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Benji Davies. HarperCollins, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-256359-0
This smartly constructed story follows a school of tadpoles as they grow and change—all except the smallest, Tad. The tadpoles’ nemesis is an ancient fish named Big Blub (“He was as old as the mud, they said”), who is partial to eating tadpoles....
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Benji Davies. HarperCollins, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-256360-6
In this gentle tale of serendipity, originally published in the U.K., the paths of a child and a newly formed snowflake converge for some holiday sparkle. Noelle, a white girl with dot eyes bundled in a red parka and chunky blue knit cap, dreams of...
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