Hi all –
I just got back from my first-ever official book tour (see my publisher’s blog here for details: http://feiwelandfriends.typepad.com/feiwel_and_friends/2008/05/jordan-and-dodg.html ).
While I was gone, DODGER got a rave review in the Kirkus ALA/BEA Big Book Guide:
“Dodger and Me is a love letter to my late father, my dear
son and our almost sacred love of baseball,” says Jordan
Sonnenblick. The book is also a magical tale of affection,
family and a boy’s imaginative (imaginary doesn’t do it justice)
friendship with an inspired, demented blue chimpanzee,
Dodger. Willie has a few wishes, a couple ill-considered:
That that girl Lizzie would leave him alone, that his
mother would trust him with his own safety and that he
would be a baseball star. “I can relate,” says Sonnenblick,
“not to the chimp part, but to baseball and the desperate
wish to succeed on the field. I was a miserable little leaguer;
I just could…not…hit…a…fastball.” Dodger has
lots of smart patter and perhaps a few wishes to grant. With
cool style and throat-tightening panache, Sonnenblick
sends a screamer Willie’s way.
Thanks, Kirkus!
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