Monkey Boy
Donovan Bixley
Scholastic, $16.50,
ISBN 9781775431862
Trouble in Time
Adele Broadbent
Scholastic, $19.00,
ISBN 9781775432265
Monkey Boy opens with a prologue designed, no doubt, to catch its intended audience of younger, and not so young, boys. It’s 1804 and our hero, Jimmy Grimholt, needed “to do more than pee. He was full to busting, so that he was afraid he would muck himself if he didn’t go soon”.
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