Rebecca Elliott. Lion (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7459-6384-6
It was only a matter of time before dystopia trickled down to picture books. A scuffed-up boy named Luka, first seen huddled in an empty drainpipe, lives in a world "where the people had forgotten what was important. There were no trees, no plants...
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Rebecca Elliott. Scholastic, $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-545-68363-0
A self-possessed owl named Eva Wingdale has personality to spare in this diary-style first book in a series that joins the Branches line of early chapter books. With her love of “making stuff” and her sky-high ambitions, Eva has the makings of a...
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Rebecca Elliott. Peachtree, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68263-148-5
Elliott’s follow-up
to Pretty Funny for a Girl works as a stand-alone, picking up with white, British Haylah Swinton, 15, soon after readers left her—having gained new confidence about being a comedian, and now dating her first boyfriend, classmate
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Rebecca Elliott. Peachtree, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-68263-147-8
Fourteen-year-old Haylah, who is fat and white, tells readers early on not to expect a story where “I have an epiphany and become a slim, sexy, health freak who’s into yoga and mung beans.” Instead, Elliott (the Owl Diaries series) gives sharp,...
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