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Title: Louis Undercover
Author: BRITT FANNY
Illustrator: ARSENAULT ISABELLE (ILL)
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 03/10/2017
Imprint: GROUNDWOOD
Price: $36.00
Publishing status: Active
Booklist (07/01/2017):
Grades 7-10 *Starred Review* Britt and Arsenault follow up their award-winning Jane, the Fox, and Me (2013) with this moving, gorgeously illustrated story of a boy seeking courage and trying to understand the complicated dynamics between his anxious mother and alcoholic father. Louis and his brother, Truffle, spend a few weeks at a time with their father in his rural cabin, which is fun until Dad starts to drink wine and cry. Back at home with his mom, Louis crushes hard on a girl in his class, but he can’t muster up the bravery to say even one word to her. For Louis, the combination of a constantly worried mother and regularly weeping father makes him believe he lacks any courage at all, but during a revealing summer in which Louis and Truffle adopt an injured raccoon and his parents seem to resolve some of their strife, he finds other ways to be brave. While the complex emotional undercurrents are subtle, Arsenault’s soft, textured pencil-and-watercolor illustrations help bring them to the surface. Billowy petals of pale yellow and blue signal Louis’s mood; heavy black pencil scratches suggest fear or anxiety; and the fine-lined faces brim with meaningful expression. This nuanced tale of an observant, sensitive boy finding his own brand of strength is bittersweet and beautifully composed.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
ISBN: 9781554988594
Weight: 975g
Dimension: 287mm X 221mm